Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 49, Number 188, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 19 September 1947 — Page 1

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Russian Satellite Repeats Accusations Made By Vishinsky In Charging United States Wants War. UNITED NATIONS HALL, FLUSHING, N. Y.,: Sept. 19. (UP) White Russia, following the lead of her mother state, today duplicated the Soviet attack on the United States as a "war monger" and seconded Soviet demands that the American press be denied the freedom to criticize Russia on the pa;n of criminal punishment. White Russian United Nations Delegate Kiselev's address to the U. N. General Assembly was almost a carbon . copy of the violent demands made yesterday by Soviet Delegate Andrei W. Vishinsky. . - .

Other delegates largely ignored the Soviet charge and the Soviet . resolution which would brand the United States as the instigator of a third world war, against the Soviet. The proposal headed . for certain overwhelming defeat. TheSoviet went through the routine procedure in asking Assembly secretary Trygve Lie to place it on the United Nations General Assembly agenda. The United States was not without support. Argentina's' Jose Arce " eloquently defended the United States policy in, Greece as an effective weapon against . another war. . Kiselev bitterly denounced the rfccent Rio de Janeiro Inter-American Defense Conference and the continuation of the joint Anglo-American defense council in Washington as significant that the Western nations were preparing for war against Russia. 1 "What are these nations afraid ! of?" he asked. "Is it necessary now to take precautions against another holocaust?". Then, almost duplicating the famous phrase of British Premiei Neville Chamberlain at the time of the Munich agreement, he appealed to the Assembly to take action against "war mpngering" to create "peace for oir time. ' '; The Soviet proposal to punish "war mongervng"- especially those in the American press was a move designed to impose ' on the Western, world, through the United Nations, the same kin of a suppressed and controlled press and freedom of speech! that exists in Russia. AIR FORCE AND ARMY PLAN SEPARATION WASHINGTON, $ept. 19 (UP) Defense Secretary James F.' Forrestal was spared the headache today of having id compromise between the Army plan and the Air Force plan for the separation of the two services. ' i The Army and the Air Force themselves completed an agreement for the initial plan of cutting the Air Force loose from the Army's , apron-strings. "The shift became necessary under the unification act which gave the Air Force independent status in the nation's new military establishment. Army Secretary Kenneth Royall and Air Force Secretary :W. Stewart Symington agreed in a new conference and all Forrestal has to now sign the agreement. It puts an estimated 325,000 .Air Force officers and men in the autonomous Air Force and, reduces the Army strength to about 640,000 men. '.... The agreement provides for Force and decreed that most cur-top-level autonomy in the Air rent operations including crossservice and procurement will -be carried on jointly for the present. NO HOPE HELD FOR LA GUARDIA NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 19 (UP)--Mayor Florello La Giiardia grew steadily worse today and his physicians said they had no hope for his recovery. The firey VLittle Flower"; has been in a coma almost continuouslv since Tuesday and his

personal physician Dr. George, Hud Nemome has been clip.

Baehr said today that no immediate change in his condition was expected. Early yesterday afternoon, Dr. Baehr said the general trend of his condition was "downward."

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GRAIN PRICES DROP LIMIT ON CHICAGO BOARD (By United Press) ) Wheat, corn, and oats plunged downward for the second straight day on the Chicago Board of Trade, while butter and eggs dropped sharply in what may become a general downward trend in wholesale food prices. Prices in all grain futures were off the limit 10 cents for wheat, 8 .cents for corn, and 6 cents for oats Prices on most of the. minor grain markets followed suit. De spite, the recent downward trend on the big exchanges, there was still only slight indication that the family grocery bill would go down immediately. Livestock also dropped at the principal - mid-west trading centers. Cows, which comprised a major part of the market, dropped as much as 50 cents and hog jprjces were down Z5 to 50 cents. t uiaaing on ngntweignt nogs were $1.25 to $2 lower- at St. Joseph, Mo. The best price paid for choice hogs was $28.00 to $29.00. : . , Under the caption "butter mar ket breaking," one Chicago chain store advertised butter at 79 cents a pound. It had hit $1.02 in some Gold Coast shops. Butter prices tumbled 6 cents a pound in stores ' in Lincoln, Neb., 4 cents at Milwaukee, and 2 cents at Louisville, -Ky. and New York. There were reports of other food price crops, but in many cities, the sky was still the limit. TOYKO BATTLES TO STOP FLOOD TOKYO, Japan, Sept. 19 (UP) About 1,500 Japanese po lice and firemen struggled des perately tonight in frantic at tempts to open a gap in the River Naka to prevent further damage to Tokyo, which is about a quarter under water now. Earlier attempts to dynamite the river were given up because of the rapidly rising water. The crest of the Naka was due at midnight, only a few hours away. The river threatened to flood its banks and. break .the dikes in two places, one near a rail line that would cut communications with the northern plains. Some 500,000 residents of three ' Wards in northwestern Tokyo were being threatened., Couldn't Dodge Fate , LEWISTON, Ida. ; ,(UP) Bill Jackson, Jr., likes : to keep . his feet on the ground. He was about to-take off as a passenger in John Stafford's plane: when he changed his mind about wanting an airplane ride. He climbed out as uie plane ruareu uuwii me 41 1 - 1 .1. . . 11. runway and wound up m a hospital with a broken jaw. ' KoeLler-Koehler Coalition MILWAUKEE (UP) When Miss Margaret Koehler was mar ried it was no trouble at all to change her records. She married Herbert J. Koehler, no relation.' THIRTY YEARS AT THE SAME CHAIR ping hair a long time. Today he pleteg thirty years of service at the game chair at tbe Davis ! Hotel barber shop. Tomorrow he will start on the second thirty I years.

MERCHANTS PLAY RASSELS TAVERN IN SERIES FINAL The Sullivan Merchants and the Rassells Tavern nine from Terre Haute will meet again Sunday afternoon in the - third game of a best two-out-of-three-game series to see which team will meet the Fairview Dodgers of Clinton in the final series. The Dodgers beat the Brazil Bedwells two straight, in their series. The

final series will decide the 1947 championship of the Western Indiana leagues The game will be played at Pavilion Field, starting at 2:30 p. m. Manager ,Taylor said that he will depend on .young Bill Shipman, who last Spring was pitching for Sullivan High School, to stop the visitors. Shipman is the only Merchant hurler who has managed to stop the visiting nine this year and as the game is all-important for the locals, Shipman will get the chance to beat the Tavern nine again. The Merchants will probably have to face Radke again this Sunday. He is the lad who muffled the Merchant batting power last Sunday with just three htis as the Terre Haute team beat the locals 9 to 1 to tie up the series. If the Merchants lose Sunday, it will be the final game of the 1947 season for them. But if they win, they will go into the final series against the Dodgers, fighting to bring the league championship back to Sullivan for the first time since 1941. The probable starting line-ups for the game Sunday are as follows: ' , Merchants Zaayer, 3b. French If Taylor, 2b Rassells Evans, 2b Chestnut, ss P. Cartwright, If Thewlis, rf Osborne, lb McGarvey, ss Takats, c . Walters, cf Shipman, p Dierdorf , c Pugh, cf Varda, lb Cartwright, 3b Gordon, rf Radke, p Umpires Hill and Payne. THREE GAMES IN COUNTY LEAGUE Third round of play was completed in the county softball league yesterday with three games being played. The fourth game, between Dugger and' Carlisle, was forfeited to Carlisle. In the southern section, Merom went into first place when they beat the New Lebanon Tigers by a score of 16 to 8 in a, game played at New Lebanon. Pleasantville is also unbeaten, but has played only two games. In the northern section, Hymera clung to iirst place when the Shakamaks beat Graysville in an eight-inning ball game. The final score was 9 to 8. Parson was the winning pitcher for the Shakamaks, while Criss lost for the Greyhounds. In the other game, Shelburn's Panthers handed the Farmersburg Plowboys their first loss of the season in a well-pitched ball game. The ' score , was 5 to 1. Garner of Shelburn outpitched Suter of the Plowboys; The win gives the Panthers a record of two and one. . . INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 19. (UP) Hogs, 12,000; barrows and gilts uneven to 50c higher; good and choice 225-250 lbs., $28.75; 250-290 lbs. ' and -180-225 lbs., $27.75 $28.00;' 160-180 lbs. and 290-325 lbs., $27.25 $27.50; 325400 lbs. - $26.50 $27.00; 100-160 lbs., $23.75 $25.00; sows about steady, all weights $23.50 $26.50; choice light weights to $27.00. . Cattle, 500; calves, . 500; four loads 800-lb. steers bought to arrive at $30.00; yearlings, $17.00 $24.00; cows , about, steady at $16.50 $17.50; common and me dium $13.25 $15.75: vealers' opened moderately active, $1 to - . . 4 1 1 . J "jsi.&u lower; duik . goou aim j choice,- $25.00 $27.50; common and medium, $14.50 $24.00. cneep, ouu; gcucianj m-iivc, about steady; choice ; fat native Spring lambs,. $22.50 $24.50; common and .medium, $19.UU - ; $22.00; common, $19.00 down; slaughter ewes steady, $5.50 $7.50 LEGION WILL MEET MONDAY Reese Anderson, commander of the Sullivan 'American Legion, said today that he has called a special meeting of the post for Monday night at 8 o'clock. Because important business will be discussed, he urges that all members and officers be present

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Golden Arrows Tackle Washington Tonight PROBABLE STARTING LINE-UP SULLIVAN POS. WASHINGTON Wernz (30) .'. le ........ . .... ..... Kirby J. Brown (SI) ...... . ... ... It Wildman n. Brawn (26) . V . . . lsr Graber (c)

J. Ralev (22) Smith (23) Kaiser (90) . , Anderson (31) Carter (40) i . Hi!ged"ek (44) Biodie (41) .. McCIure (46) Sullivan's Golden Arrows'Will tackle the Washington Hatchets tonight as the Arrows try towin j their first game of the season. ' The game will be played at Allen Field, in Washington and . will start at 7:30 p. m., standard time. The Arrows came out of the Bloomington game with a couple of the players crippled. They hsvn't responded to treatment, and as a result, the Arrows will be going into the game with a line-vo that will be changed from the one that started against the Panthers. , , George Laskey, who played a brilliant eame against the Panthers, suffered a groin injury, and missed practice most -of the week. As a result, Don Brown, 150-pound senior, will start ) at left guard in Laskey's spot. Two backs are also injured. Bill Pinkston and Stan Scully both have had swollen legs this week, and their practice Jias been limited to warm up exercises. Pinkston might see action against the Hatchets, but it is doubtful if Scully will get to piay. To ' replace these boys, coach Bill Jones has had to switch his backfield again, and has brought up a freshman ' to start at fullback. Don McCIure, a 145-pound freshman, , will be in the fullback slot when tne Whistle- blows tonight. Dean Brodie has been switched from fullback to right half, with Calvin Hilgediek and Mil Carter remaining at. let half and quarter back. The Arrows will be outweighted for the third week in a row when they go up against the Hatchets. The Washington line will average about eight' pounds to the man more than the Arrow forward wall. The local backs will also be outweighted. The Hatchets will be trying to mark up their second victory of the season, and the first tney ever have scored over the Arrows. They beat Huntingburg in Princeton last week, 0 to 0. the opener 34 to 0, and then tied The game is an S.I.A.C. game, and will mark time that each team has played a conference game. The Arrows have lost two, while the Hatchets have a win and a tie to show for their efforts. CARLISLE LIONS CLUB MEETS At their regular monthly meeting, the Carlisle Lions Club, voted unanimously, its hearty endorsement of the bond issue to extend and modernize the Mary Sherman Hospital. . Dinner was served the Lions, their wives and friends by the Ruth Gleaners class in the basement at the Carlisle Methodist Church. Two very interesting speakers addressed the gathering, both newcomers to Carlisle, the Rev. Gerald Kreuger, pastor of the Carlisle Christian Church and the Rev. Claude MacAllister, pastor of the Carlisle Methodist Church. The club was pleased to learn of the appointment of H. W. Gross, Superintendent of the Carlisle Schools, as District Deputy of the Lions International. . I i COURT CALENDAR week beginning Sept. 22 is as follows: Sept. 22 Morgan vs. Morgan; Shoptaw vs. Shoptaw; Leturgez vs. Leturgez. Sept. 23 Hewiett vs. Fritz; Poselwait vs. Wiseman; Tilford vs. Wood Estate. j Sept. 24 Powers vs. Kenney; Swaby vs. Chanley; Allied Steel Products Co. vs. Martin Tool and Mfg. Co. et al. Sept. 25 Borden vs. Byers; Marlow et al vs. Shpffner; AnIchor Company vs. Lemmon. Sept. 26 Birth Certificates; Branan & Williams, Inc. vs. Rojbinson; Simmons vs. nuuoms, , Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp. 'vs. Rogers et al. : Sept. 27 Probate Matters.

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c Scraper rg ........ ..... White rt Mayhill re Opell qb Allen lh Foster rh ......... . . . . Naylor fb .. ......... Murray DEMO EDITORS TO MEET FOR FALL OUTING INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 19 (UP) Hoosier Democratic edi tors closed their roll-top aesKS today and went to French Lick where they will be the "minor ity group" at their annual fall outing. ' . Traditionally, the editors attending the two-day session of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association represent only a fraction of the total attendance. The others- are - party leaders from every nook and cranny in the State and the rank and file of the party from the same regions. i A program of social and offilildl. Ll V I LH.D " uv. J'n.v ...... . than a background for the back stage activities that highlight the outing. The headline speech will be given by Robert Kerr, former Democratic Governor of Oklahoma. Kerr will speak at a banquet Saturday night that is expected to draw a thousand per sons for the closing session of the two-day meet. RADIO GROUP AT SHELBURN The Dixie Four, a radio quartet, will present a program at the Shelburn Church of God on Thursday, Sept. 25. The program will start at 7:30 p. m. The quartet has been singing on the Mutual Broadcasting Company. The Shelburn church will start a series of revival meetings on Tuesday, Sept. 23, with the Rev. iT. C. Franklin, of St. Joseph, Mo., conducting tne services, ine ev iH. R. Morehead, pastor of the church, said that the Rev. Franklin is well qualified to bring the revival messages to the church. TO THE VOTERS OF SULLIVAN A recent check of the poll books of the city indicates that there are about five-hundred men and women of voting1 age in the City of Sullivan who are not registered tc vote. I understand that an effort is being made to contact every nonregistered voter in the city lyrithin the next day or so by men who are legally authorized to register you where you are. Won't you please give them yonr co-operation? We have only until Oct. 6 to do this job, and the election is Nov. 4. Let's shoot with ballots and not with bullets. James MclGarvey Democrat County Chairman IMRS. RAY BILLER DIES IN INDIANAPOLIS Word has been received here of the death of Mrs. Ray Biller of Indianapolis. She will be remembered as the former Helena Barnes, daughter of the late William R. and Fannie Barnes, former residents of Terre Haute, and a niece of Miss Kittie Barnes and Mrs. C. W. Hartfelter. Miss Barnes, Miss Clara Pittman and Mrs. Hartfelter left today for Indianapolis to attend , the funeral. Burial will be in Highland Lawn Cemetery in Terre Haute. JOSEPH MARTIN TO MAKE TOUR WASHINGTON, Sept. 19' (UP) Speaker Joseph W. Martin, of the House of Representatives, today prepared to leave on a four-week Western speaking tour, but said "I am not a candidate for the Republican Presi'dential nomination and do not expect to be." Martin told reporters he originally planned to make only three Western speeches, but that invitations had accumulated and now he will visit a dozen cities. . , . .

MRS. A. MARTIN DIESAT SHELBURN -Mrs. Anna' Giles Martin, ' 76 years old, died Thursday afternoon at two o'clock at the home east of Shelburn following a serous illness of ten -weeks of a heart ailment. .. Mrs. Martin was the wife ' of John Martin, prominent farmer of Sulliyan County, and daughter of the late David and Elmira

Pinkston Giles, large land-owners of Curry township. She was the mother of Harold Martin, member of . the, Sullivan High School faculty. , '-.! The deceased was widely known for her devoted work in Christian service for she had been an active member . of the Ebenezer Methodist Church since her early youth. Surviving are the husband, Ljohn; one daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Peterson ' of rerre wauie; iour sons, Harold, Fonzo and Lawrence, all of Shelburn, and Dr. Ellis Martin of Acton, Indiana; one brother, Hugh Giles of Sullivan; seventeen grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. The' body was removed to the McHugh Funeral Home in Shelburn and was returned to the residence today at noon where it now, lies in state. Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 1:30 in the Ebenezer Methodist Church, north of Shelburn, with Rev. Jack Anderson of the Sullivan First Christian Church officiating. Interment will be made in the Liberty Ceme tery. , CHINA REJECTS JAPANESE PEACE CONFERENCE NEW. YORK, N. Y., Sept. 19. (UP) Dr. Wang Shi-Cheh, foreign minister for China, disclosed today that China will line up with Russia in refusing the United States' invitation to an elevenation Japanese peace conference.Dr. Wang, in an interview, said that China must turn down the American plan for . the same reason that Russia rejected the plan because the Big Four veto power was not included. ;''China has fought a long, and bitter, war with ', the Japanese," Dr. Wang, said, "and it could not go into any peace confer-1 ence without , some safeguard that her interests would be protected." . HEIRS WIN COURT BATTLE ' Mr. and Mrs. John Alvie Lank ford of 426 North West Street, Sullivan, received a letter this week stating that Mrs. Lankford and heirs have won a long-fought suit for 1400 acres of land. The land is reported as covered with pine and hardwood timber and is located in the eastern part of Tennessee in Wayne County. Mr. Lankford is now employed with the Montgomery Ward Company in Vincennes. He is a native of Sullivan. Mr. and Mrs. Lankford will leave soon for Waynesboro, Tennessee, where they.- will- be engaged in the lumber business.

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HURRICANE CAUSES MUCH DAMAGE AT NEW ORLEANS AND HEADS FOR ARKANSAS Storm Catches City Unprepared And Wrecks Negro Housing Project; Hurricane Blows Inland. NEW ORLEANS, La. Sept. 19. (UP) A devastating hurricane struck New Orleans ..and the Gulf Coast today, causing huge property damage, floods, and casualties. ' , The Reynes Negro housing project was largely wiped out by the hurricane arid many downtown buildings suffe-ed

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At 12 :30 p. m. EST, the center of the storm had moved twenty miles northwest of New Orleans in the direction of Baton Rouge, which already had felt high winds. The weather bureau sa;d the storm would carry hurricane winds into southern Arkansas by nightfall. ' . . : ; "

TAFT GIVES PROGRAM FOR CUTTING PRICES SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Sept. 19 (UP) Senator Robert A. Taft, R., Ohio, today blamed the Truman . administration for the, high cost of living and offered a six-point program for turning prices downward. Taft's program included a proposal that "voluntary rationing" be considered; that wage increases be , discouraged if they would raise-the cost of living; that corporations turn excess profits into lower prices for their goods, and that prices be established at 60 per cent above the pre-war level. ' His review of the price situation was made in a speech prepared for delivery before the Commonwealth Club here, his last California appearance In his present Western tour ' to - assess his chances for the Republican presidential nomination. Taft, who has been blamed by the Democrats for the high prices, indicted the administration on several counts, including the charge that President Truman dropped O.PA. controls too early.' r ; N. L. R. B. EXTENDS FILING DEADLINE FOR AFFIDAVITS WASHINGTON, ' Sept. 19 (UP) The National Labor Relations Board and( its General Counsel Robert Denham today extended until Oct. 31 the deadline for filing . top-Commnnist affidavits by labor officials. The previouS deadline was next Monday. The affidavits are l . , . . . mUUI law. lciuiaill ' ikao ujv.u that all officials of the unions, including officials of the parent organization, the American Federation of Labor and the C.I.O., must file the affidavits before the unions can use the services . of the board. . ' . Last- week Denham and the board received a request from the C.I.O. and the A. F. of L. to extend the deadline to Oct. 31. if

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- A reporter in Biloxi, Miss., said automobiles were "floating like corks" on streets near the beach there as the storm whipped huge waves over the beaches. The tide there was estimated as being fifteen to twenty-five feet above normal. - In New Orleans, an area three blocks wide and extending foe several miles along Lake Pontchartrain was flooded. Many beautiful homes lining the lake were damaged by the water. The Red Cross- said the water was shoulder deep in some places. " Winds up to 120 miles, an hour slammed into New Orleans, knocking down signs, scattering debris, breaking windows, and knocking down communicationj and power lines. . f A weather bureau advisory said the powerful storm 'would hurl overland to the northwest and retain its hurricane force for at least a hundred miles, with, gales sweeping 200 miles from the center of the storm. Virtually all business houses, including the stock exchange, closed, and this city 1 of 600,000 people,-already swollen by refugees from the bayou country, moved inside boarded-uo home-5 and shelters to sit out the blow. New Orleans was in a state of emergency. All firemen, and policemen were ordered on hurricane duty. The storm struck at the mouth of the Mississipoi River and sent big waves swirling over the low country south of here. New Orleans hoped that sea walls would protect it from the flood. This city had experienced no hurricane since 1915, and did not expect this one. It was caught short by the storm. 1 In downtown New Orleans, broad Canal Street, hemmed in by the river at one end and by the lake at the other, was the scene of frantic action long before dawn. Carpenters worked ii drenching rain to board up and protect the expensive shop windows. Lumber .trucks rumbled through the streeti delivering the lumber, but. there wasn't enouPli li-mher or time to protect all the windows, and they were left to the mercy of the storm. r STATE TO. MAKE FINAL EFFORT IN MURDER CASE SANTA ANA, Calif., Sept. 19. (UP) The State will make a final effort today with rebuttal witnesses to convict Beulah Louise OvereA, age 18, and her college sweetheart of the murder of her wealthy parents. Prosecutor Eugene D. Williams declined to reveal how many witnesses he would call, but he was expected to complete testimony today and clear the way for final arguments. Each of six attorneys, two each for Miss Overell and her co-defendant, George Gollum,. age 21. and two for the State, indicated that they would use half a court day to summarize their cases. Su--ww 11. tt utr perior Judge K.ennetn r.. mornson said his instructions to the jury may take two hours. Morrison estimated that the rasft would go to the jury next Friday, or a week from Monday, after nearly eighteen weeks, the longest murder trial in Califor nia's history. TODAY'S TEMPERATURES The unofficial temperatures in Sullivan today were: At 7:30 a. m - 71 degrees At noon J. 84 degrees