Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 49, Number 186, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 17 September 1947 — Page 1

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MARSHALL PLACES BLAME FOR WORLD CONDITIONS-

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United iNations Assembly l o Get Action On Korea And Greece. UNITED NATIONS HALL. FTJTSTTTtttt NT V amt

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ccaay a radical overhauling oi the United Nations machinery limiting1 the bie Dower veto, shifting nf main roenrmciv;i;,r

to the fifty-five nation Assembly and conceded the failure of

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most ii not all ot the blame dition. Marshall told the United 'Na tions General Assembly that the United States is now nreoared to "accept drastic limitations of the Security Council veto rights. He asked for the creation of a fifty-five-nation standing committee of the United Nations General Astembly to remain in continuous essinn nnrl tnkp nv&r mnpli r,f he job assigned to "the Security Council. The Marshall proposal would stablish a "watch-dog" commitee of all the United Nations to ;eep an eye on the world and to tep in with recommendations vhen the Security Council as ias become custom fails to act n a world crisis. Marshall spoke after Mexico's Foreign Minister Jaime Torrez wrought charges that the great owers were parting the United Nations with discord and he at tacked Russia "whose abuse of the veto power makes peace im passible." . Speaking in the General Asembly's general debate which tened today. Marshall fired the first shot in the present phase of line unuea oiaies-oviei aipiuInatic war. Soviet Delegate Antirei Vishinski was scheduled., to jansWer Marshall later today but (he changed his mind and will not .speaK. Deiore tomorrow or. later. Marshall accused the Soviet rUnion of preventing action to. stop "hostile and aggressive actions against Greece." He blamed the Soviet for the delay in the independence and unification of Korea. Indirectly, he charged Russia with paying lip service to world demands for reduction of arms end said that such matters should not be subjected to "demagogical appeals and irresponsible propa- ) panda." The Soviet seized the initiative at last year's Assembly by proposing- universal disarmament. Marshall continued his address with a special appeal to 1 each permanent member of the Security Council to use restraint. "The great powers must recog- ' nize that restraint is an essential component of power and privilege," he said. Marshall devoted a large part of his text to Korea and predict ed that any further attempt to solve this problem with bilateral Russian - American negotiations "will only serve to delay the' establishment of an independent, united Korea." STATE LABOR GROUP. FIGHTS ; LABOR LAW ' TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Sept. 17 (UP) A special committee to study 1 resolutions denouncing the Taft-Hartley labor law was set up today by Carl Mullen, president of the Indiana Federation of Labor. . The 62nd annual convention of the state federation ' opened here yesterday for a four-day session. Mullen said the defeat of those who backed the Taft-Hartley labor law would be the main theme of the convention, making it necessary for a special committee to study the resolutions to that end. Another committee would study the "regular" resolutions. Mullen called on all the 1,000 delegates attending the convention to defeat the supporters of the Taft-Hartley labor law in 1948. TODAY'S TEMPERATURES . The unofficial temperatures in Sullivan today were: At 7:30 a. m 60 degrees At noon 76 digrees

VETO ACTION

George C. Marshall proposed for the world's chaotic con LA GUARDI A CONDITION IS SERIOUS .:' NEW YORK,' N. Y., Sept. 17 (UP) Fiorella H. LaGuardia, age 64, former mayor of New York and one of the nation's outstanding public figures, was in a critical condition at his home today. His physician, Dr. George Baehr said LaGuardia collapsed at his home last night and had "sunk into a deep stupor." LaGuardia, a former Congressman and former head of U.N.N. R.A., had been failing for several weeks, ever since he underwent an operation for a pancreatic condition several months ago and never fully recovered. JOHN COBB SETS NEW -SPEED RECORD BONNEVILLE SALT FLATS, Utah, Sept. 17 (UP) England's John Cobb said today that "it made me feel like a king for a minute to rip along the ground at more than 400 miles' an hour, faster than any other man has ever traveled on the ground. After weeks of false starts, the London fur-broker got away to the final speed run and within thirty-five minutes he had: 1. Established a new land speed record for the measured mile of 394.196 miles an hour. The old mark was set in 1939 here and was 368.85 miles an hour. 2. Made a new world's record for the measured kilometer of 393.285 kilometers an hour. Cobb's previous best was 369.7 kilometers an hour. ' 3. He went 403.135 miles an hour on the northbound run of the track. No one had ever gone that fast before in an automobile. On the lightnings like dash from south to north, his 770 pound Railton Mobile was in the. measured mile just 8.93 seconds. CORN CROP NEEDS FROST FREE WEATHER ; WASHINGTON, ' Sept. 17 i (UP) The nation's corn crop ; needs three weeks of frost-free weather despite definite im provements of the corn crop prospects. , The weather bureau said the corn crop is making "generally good progress after the disastrous midsummer drought. Rain last week in some sections of the corn belt, notable in Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas, helped the corn. In some sections of the corn belt, too much rain has hindered the crop, and these areas need dry weather and hot sunny days to mature the corn. There is no longer much hope that the crop will produce more than the 2,404,000,000 bushels which the Department of Agriculture estimated on Sept. 1. Growing conditions during the last few weeks has affected the quality, not the quantity of the corn, the department said. ,t

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This is an architect's drawing of the proposed addition to the Mary Sherman Hospital if the $470,000 bond issue is floated. Petitions for approving the bond issue are being circulated In Sujlivan County.

LOCAL GIRL IN HAIR DRESSING STYLE SHOW Miss Evon Hague of this city was selected as third place winner in the DeVry Beauty Company hair style show Sunday held in the Gold Room of the McCurdy Hotel. Miss Hague was entered by Miss Betty Wolfe, proprietor of Betty's Beauty Mart of Sullivan, who dressed her hair in an upsweep style. . t Contestants from Indiana, Ohio, Illinois and Tennessee figured in the style show. HOOSIER CITIES INCREASE TAX RATES FOR 1948 INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 17. (UP) Hoosiers who already knew that local property taxes were going up learned from the Indiana municipal league yesterday, something about the extent of the expected rise in 1948. W. ' Vincent Younkey of Crown Point, executive secretary of the organization of cities that continually harps for state aid for municipalities,' issued statistics yesterday that showed three-fourths of the cities propose higher civil city rates next year. The proposed levies 1 for 1947, fn which taxes payable in 1948 are based, show that nine cities planned civil city rates higher than the highest civil city rate now in effect. The questionable honor of being the city with the highest civil rate in 1947 went to Elwood, where a rate of $2.14 was in effect, according to Younkey's figures. Highest Civil City Levies, But the 1948 list shows the following civil city levies as proposed on the basis of budgets before local adjustment .boards received them for study and possible decrease: Portland, $2.69; Brazil, $2.45; Covington, $2.41; Alexandria, $2.28; Marion, $2.23; Petersburg and Mt. Vernon, $2.21; Valparaiso and Columbus, $2.20. Six others above the $2.00 mark were Winchester, Terre Haute, Vincennes, Wabash, Greencastle and Bicknell. Some may benefit by lower school or county rates. The proposed rate for Sullivan for 1948 is $1.64. However, a close study of Younkey's figures would indicate only a fraction of Indiana's 102 cities with mayors anticipate tax reductions next year. Would Use State Balance. Younkey released the figures with a letter entitled "tax facts for city officials." The letter suggested that the state share "its huge balance of $73,954,407" with the civil cities. If it did so, Younkey said, every civil city would be tax free for two years. The tax statistics showed that 25 cities, however, failed to follow the general trend toward higher civil city levies. High Rates Cited. The league's statistics on 1946 tax rates on which the 1947 payable taxes were based produced such "records" as these: Highest county tax rate, $2.11, Martin county (Loogootee). Highest township tax rate in any township in which one ' of the 102 cities-with-mayors was located, 88 cents, Washington twp., Pike Co. (Petersburg). Highest school city tax rate, $2.75, Gas City. Highest library tax rate, 20 cents, Rockport. Highest total property tax rate, including all levies, $5.98, Petersburg.

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r-rr : nr rrn fir r n. v " i a, f ' . TAFT SEEKS TO BLAME PRICES ON TRUMAN LOS ANGELES, Calif., Sept. 17. (UP) Senator Robert A. Taft started a two-day tour of land reclamation projects today, taking a respite from his speechmaking campaign, aimed at giving President Truman a share of the blame for the country's high prices. His tour also gave him respite from the labor unions which have picketed his meetings at Los Angeles and Santa Cruz because he sponsored the TaftHartley labor law. In a speech before a Republican rally last night, Taft charged that Mr. Truman dropped price control too soon. Senator Taft was singled out by Mr. Truman a year , ago foi being the man 'most responsible for the scuttling of price control. President Truman criticized the Republican party for the part it played in the 1946 price control extension law, but Taft recalled last night that President Truman abandoned price controls before the Republican Congress in January of this year could show its strength. FOOD PRICES INCREASE IN PAST WEEK (By United Press) Wholesale food prices were at the highest peak ever recorded today and retail prices at the corner grocery store were moving up to keep them company. Dunn and Bradstreet announced that the wholesale food prices during the. week had risen to an all-time peak. The index of 31 basic foods jumped to $7.02 a week ago to $7.12 as of Sept. 16. A survey by the United Press taken in. ten widely scattered cities reported ' that food price rose sharply in the last two weeks to keep pace with the spiralling prices at the nation's grain and livestock markets.At Washington, agricultural commissioners of five states charged that inflated labor costs was the largest single item in the high prices. They said that increased production would go a long way to reduce "prices. At Boston, a Congressional subcommittee was told by a representative of a department store that higher ' wholesale prices were responsible for the higher retail prices. John Lerkins, Representing William Filene's Sons Co., told the Congressmen that profits were the smallest part of the "total cost of doing business." Administration officials . in Washington urged housewives to cutdown on the luxury foods to offset some of the highest costs of eating. , Department of Commerce spokesmen said that the price of meat is considered higher than the normal indication because of the volume of meat produced and the amount the consumer spends. They said that a decline may set in in meat prices during the third and fourth quarters of this year.

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5 . . i GATES APPEALS TO PUBLIC IN SHADES DRIVE v INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Sept. 17. (Special) Governor Ralph F. Gates today appealed for "a ! statewide display of that spirit of generosity for which Hoosiers are famous" as the public subscription campaign to Save the Shades entered its third week. . Noting that individual gifts to the statewide campaign have been fewer than expected,' the Governor added that "we must not adopt a defeatist attitude. This campaign cannot fail, and Lwe are not going to let it fail." ; The Indiana Department of Conservation, sponsor of - the campaign, has received "magnificent support," the Governor said, from various organizations.' "So many individuals have expressed their interest and support that I am sure the translation of this interest into an actual gift would change the complexion of the campaign overnight." -vvVThis campaign . is unusual," the Governor continued, "in that no solicitor will call at a home or an office with a subscription card. Every gift is completely voluntary and involves leaving that gift at the local bank or mailing it to 'Save the Shades,' Indianapolis." Answering the question as to what would happen in "the event the drive should fall short of its $300,000 goal, the Governor said: "Every dollar given will be applied to the Shades purchase and the effort will continue until the Shades is saved." ' AMERICANS AGAIN DEFY YUGOSLAVS TRESTE, Sept. 17 (UP) Yugoslav detachment ordered an American lientenant and six men to surrender a sixty-yard path today, but the lientenant ordered his men tx dig in before the danger increased. Lieut. John Konishi said the Yugoslavs gave him until noon to back up. An hour before the deadline expired, he told the Yugoslav officer: "I am holding my ground." An official spokesman said the Yugoslavs had made no advances by noon, "but we cannot say that the situation is settled as yet." Lieut. Konishi said that as far as he could see, which was only a few yards across the Yugoslav border, there weren't too many Yugoslavs. There was an antitank gun mounted 400 yards away. ATTENDS KRAFT SCHOOL AT TURKEY RUN Jim Banther of Sullivan, attended e school of instruction for milk intake men of the Kraft Foods Company plants in- Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky and Illinois. The school was held on Sept. 9 and 10 at Turkey Run State Park. GOODWILL QUARTET TO GIVE PROGRAM SUNDAY The Goodwill Quartet of Vincennes, Indiana will give a program of gospel singing at the Mt. Calvary Church Sunday evening, September 21, at 7:30 o'clock. This quartet 'is well known throughout Southern Indiana having appeared at ' various church programs and reunions. The public is invited to attend.

.. " s 1 llliiiiiili 4 t i,:s.;;:L.U:W:::V '-(0 f-"tlV- it 4 " 'J ... DRUNK PILOT BLAMED FOR PLANE CRASH NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 17. (UP) A district attorney charg ed today that a drunken pilot was at the controls of an Ameri can Airlines experimental DC-3 when it plunged into Bowery Bay off La Guardia Field on Aug. 8, killing three of the live men aboard. 1. District Attorney Charles O. Sullivan of Long Island City immediately started an investigation "to establish where the criminal negligence rests." He summoned to his office of ficials of American Airlines, of ficials of the Civil Aeronautics Authority, and the dispatcher on duty at La Guardia Field when the airplane took off for the fa tai flight. The two survivors, Chester Ball',' age 24," and : James Pill, age 25 (both of New York,) who escaped as the airplane sank in the bay, also were called in.. Sullivan quoted an official, autopsy report by Dr. Alexander Gettler citing city toxicologists as shownng that the brain of the dead pilot, Capt. Walter Davidson, age 34, of Wantagh, N. Y.,. contained "three-plus alcohol" which he said Gettler noted large amount." was GAMBLE STORE OPENS FRIDAY The Gamble's store located on Sullivan's north side of the public square will mark its formal reopening here Friday and Saturday under the new management who recently purchased the business. Frank Vanzo and his son, Bud, of near Clinton, have been restocking the business since they assumed ownership in June of this year and have listed a number of their items elsewhere in the advertising columns of today's Times. The elder partner in the business is a veteran coal miner of this district, havins 25 vears' mining cAiciicuLc iyj ilia ucuit. His . son, and co-partner, has recently returned from air corps service. He attended Purdue University and Rose Polytechnic Institute. Bud has since gone into private employment as a, draftsman and tool designer. The Vanos have stated their appreciation for the friendliness of the local citizenry and welcome the prospect of meeting still more of the people of this city and surrounding communities. AUTOMOBILES COLLIDE NORTH OF TOWN A 1940 Buick driven by Morris Martindale of Sullivan, R. 4, ran into the back of a 1945 Plymouth UllTCII E1CU XI. UUI UU11 Ul j vincennes, last night north of town. Damage was estimated at $100.00 to Martindale's car and $25.00 to $30.00 to the other. The accident was investigated by County Sheriff Harold Reynolds and Deputy Sheriff Hubert Wagner. MRS. J. R. RIGGS ON PROGRAM Mrs. J. R. Riggs will , give a paper entitled "General Reminder of the Land of the Pilgrim's Pride" at the November meeting of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

STRONG WINDS ROARING ACROSS FLORIDA COAST AS SOME RESIDENTS FLEE Winds Estimated At 120 Miles An Hour Cause Property Damage At West Palm Beach.

' WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Sept. 17. (UP) Violent hurricane winds roared across the fabulous playground of

South Florida today, ripping perty damage, but there have so far. . OVERELL TRIAL HEARS END OF TESTIMONY SANTA ANA, Calif., Sept. 17. (UP) The 17-week-old timebomb murder trial of heiress Beulah Louise Overell, age 18, and George Gollum, age 21. reached a climax today with Gollum expected to repeat his fiancee's denial that they murdered her wealthy parents, Mr. and Mrs: Walter Overell. The bespectacled pre-medical student during yesterday's testimony revealed his romance with the stolid University of Southern California freshman. ' But court recessed before he could ender a denial to killing Mr. and Mrs. Overell and rig ging a time-bomb to blow up the family yacht and hide the crime. He admitted buying the dyna mite, but it Mr. Overall's re quest. He said he signed a ficti tious name because Overell want' ,.ed to keep the purchase secret. ANDERSON TALKS ON HIGH PRICES ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., Sept. 17.(UP) Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson last night blamed the coal and steel industry for "inflationary prices" in many basic commodities. Anderson, in a national radio debate with Representative Buffet, R., Neb., and Oscar Palmer, Phoenix, Ariz., industrialist, said, "Production and more production is the one sure way to stop price increases." "Many basic commodities," Anderson contended, "govern and inflate prices of other products. Coal and steel are the basic price-setting commodities giving us trouble. Coal prices have been pyramided one upon another." Anderson admitted, however, that "high prices are inevitable" so long as food shortages continue and buyers have money. COUNTY TEAMS PLAY THURSDAY The third round of play in the Sullivan County High School softball league will be played on Thursday afternoon with three games scheduled. In the northern section, Shelburn, with a record 'of 1 and 1, will play at Farmersburg. The Plowbovs have won their only game. Hymera, with a record of two wins, will play at Graysvilla. The Greyhounds lost their only start. In the southern section, Merom will be trying to make it thre straight as they clash with the New Lebanon Tigers. The Tigers, who will be the home team, lost their only start in league play. Coach Alvan Callahan's Carlisle Indians will mark up a win this week. They are scheduled to play Dugger, but the Bulldogs have been forced to cancel all their games because of the football schedule at Dugger. ARROWS PLAN "B" SCHEDULE The Sullivan, Golden Arrows's B team will play a seven game schedule, if H. C. Gilmore, principal of the high school, can schedule two more ' games. At present the junior Arrowy have five games on the card , with two open dates. The first game will be played at Vincennes on Monday, Sept. 22. The rest of the schedule includes: Sept. 29 Linton, h (7 p. m.) Oct. 6 Open. Oct. 13 Vincennes, h (7 p. m.) Oct. 20 Linton, t. Oct. 27 Bicknell, h (7 p. m.) Nov. 3 Open. .

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been no reported casualties I Heavy rains pelted a three-hundred-mile stretch of Florida's east coat, from Miami to Titusville. Twelve-foot waves surged over the beach here and the wind rose to 120 miles an hour, but the residents of this playground of the millionaires had battened down their houses and sought safety in public shelters. (At 11 a., m., the weather bureau at New Orleans said that all its communications extending into South Florida had failed and that no further reports would be available from that area. The bureau said that the storm was centered approximately very near the coast here, just south of Palm Beach, with the winds blowing at considerably more than 120 miles an hour near the center.) Thousands of persons huddled in public buildings, schools, and churches and in other safe structures in cities along the coast. An estimated 10,000 others had fled by train and automobile from Clewiston and other communities surrounding Lake Okeechobee. A 178-foot high radio tower used by radio station WGNO here snapped in two with a noise like a pistol shot that could be heard above the whistle of the wind. The radio station had been guaranteed that the tower would withstand a wind velocity of 120 miles an hour. Many streets and some lowlying buildings were flooded when the waters of Lake Worth lapped over a six-foot seawall. The studios of Station WGNO were flooded by the water and the staff evacuated, taking refuge in the Good Samaritan Hospital two blocks away -after a wild run through the storm. Strong gales of 71 miles an hour lashed Miami and Miami Beach at 10:15 a. m. VETS ASKED TO - ' CONTACT WAA: SERVICE CENTER CINCINNATI, Sept. 17. All veterans interested in purchasing government surplus property are urged to keep in close contact with their nearest WAA Customer Service Center for available merchandise, Harry E. Ritter. Regional Director, stated today. It was pointed out at a recent meeting of the Veterans' Advis ory Committee that the neW procedure which eliminates precertification and requires only the veteran's discharge papers or a photostatic copy to be eligible to buy surplus property, will speed up the disposal program to a marked degree. Now, approximately 15,000,000 veterans are potential war eurplus buyers. Under the old procedure and prior to the establishment of customer service centers only about 4,500,000 veterans had requested that their names be placed on WAA mailing lists for catalogs of war surplus. These catalogs have been discontinued and veterans may now find out what is available . to them not only in their own locality, but throughout the nation by contacting their nearest customer service center. The following WAA customer service centers are located in this area: 704 Race St., Cincinnati; 342 Massachusetts Ave., Indianapolis, Indiana; 245 N. High St., Columbus, Ohio; Lexington Signal Depot, Lexington, Ky.; Gate 5, 12th & Ohio Sts., Evanaville, Indiana. FIRE- DEPARTMENT ANSWERS CALL The fire department answered a call to the home of Mrs. Raymond Waidner, West Washington Street, about 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon. . The blaze started when a pan of grease caKght fire, and resulted in damage to the curtains and shades in the kitchen. The flames were extinguished before the firemen arrived.