Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 49, Number 198, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 3 October 1947 — Page 1

" WEATHER :r, WARMER SATURDAY Indiana: Generally fair' and warmer tonight and Saturday., Only Dally Newspaper In SULLIVAN COUNT

VOL. XUX No. .193 STRIKE CLOSESMOST STORES IN TERRE HAUTE TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Oct. 3. Fifty department stores and apparel shops here closed today, idling some 600 retail clerks, after a strike was called in one store by an A. F. of L. union. The stores were closed indefinitely by the management soon after fifty to sixty clerks failed to report for work at the Schultz Department Store, one of the largest stores in the city. Spokesmen for Local 983, International Association of Retail Clerks, said the strike was caused by a breakdown in contract negotiations involving a wage increase. . A contract between the merchants and the union expired on Sept. 1, and union spokesmen said that negotiations had been opened before the contract expired and that it had been continued a month beyond the expiration date. He said the conditions of the new contract were "acceptable" except for the wage provisions. ' . The clerks met last night and agreed to strike one store at a time. . This morning the clerks were nhcpnt af the ftphnlt? fitnrA Snmp

fifty other shops, including shoe .lw commraees at me stores and women's apparel , meeting. Bob Herr was made stores, closed shortly after. At chapman of the committee to arleast four stores remained open. rraige lor a dance Bob Weathers, They are Montgomery Ward, ,Jhn Purcell and Chet AlumSears Roebuck, Woolworth, and baugh are other members of the Kresge .committee. O. K. Anderson was

AIRLINE MAY LEASE STRIKE BOUND PLANE ' J-NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. ,1 (UP) American' Overseas Airlines prepared today to lease seventeen planes . grounded at La Guardia Field by the strike of 117 pilots. "A. O. A." emblems were removed from some of the planes yesterday and the company announced that it was considering leasing the planes DC-4's and Constellations and solicit repair work at the maintenance plants. As the strike went into the fourth day, both the pilots' union, the Airlines Pilot Association, A. F. of L. and the company have decided to leave early settlement decisions to the other side. David Behncke, president of the pilot union, said the strike ! would end speedily if the com' panyjwould drop the stipulation that grievances should be overlooked as a condition to signing a contract. MERCHANTS PLAY DODGERS SUNDAY Sullivan's Merchlnts will play the first game of a two-out-of-three game series for the Western Indiana League championship Sunday when they invade Clinton to battle the Fairview Dodgers. Fairview's Baby Bums, who are backed by the Brooklyn Dodgers, one of the teams playing in the World Series, won the right to compete in the final play-off by trimming the Brazil Bedwells two straight. The Merchants took two out of three from the Rassell Tavern nine to gain a play-off berth. . ' The two teams met once during the season, with the Dodgers taking a ten-inning decision from the locals. The second game of the series will be played in Sullivan on Oct. 12. Manager Taylor will send Bill Shipman to the mound against the Dodgers, with Takats or Keene doing the catching. The bus to Clinton will leave xne dus siauon at iu.ou a. ni., anu players wno plan to go !her than in the bus are asked" to leave word at the station before starting time. There will be room for a few fans in the bus. The game will be played at the ball park just north 'of the swimming pool at Clinton. Game time is 2:30 p. m. GOLF TOURNAMENT TO BE HELD HERE SUNDAY A golf tournament will be held Sunday at Briar Hill it was announced today. Members of the Linton Golf Club will participate in the tourney. ,

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asking- the are served by the carrier boys in Sullivan to please try to have change for them when they collect on Friday and Saturday. It helps them pay their paper bill at The Times office, and will assist them; in making speedier delivery of the papers through the week if they are not required to stop to collect. Your cooperation will be appreciated. JAYCEESHEAR R. GOUCKENOUR Robert Gouckenour addressed the Junior Chamber of Commerce at a business, meeting, in which he gave some of the background of the business life in Sullivan. Mr. Gouckenour told how little Sullivan had changed in the last thirty-five years. He said that then, the life blood of the community was farming and mining, with the city having a population of about 5,000. Today, he continued, the same thing is true of i buliivan. It still depends on farming and mining, and it still has the same population. It is up to the young men in the community , to get industry into Sullivan, Mr. Gouckenour said, and Sullivan must have that industry if it is to progress as other communities near it are progressing. Bill Taylor, Jaycee president, iiamcu da lii&ii uiitn vi a committee to plan for a county-wide amateur show, with Homer H. Murray and Harold Gambill being named to the committee to serve with Anderson. FLEM F. IRONS DIESATDUGGER , Flem F. Irons, 76 years old, formerly of the Gilmour community, died at ,4 p'clock Thursday morn ing at the home of a son, John Irons, in Dugger. He had been ill for several weeks. , Mr. Irons was a retired farmer. He had lived in the Gilmour com munity for many years. He was

phamDinnshin vesterriav when wnicn protected DOin xne ooia member of the Z.on Methodist TeTtt'e ShFttSS r and the lender. In 1919 Sufviving are the widow, Mrs., a Pf Merom. - LtlZSusan Irons; four sons, Vernal The same teams will meet ed the automobile financing Irons of Austin, Tex., Adrian again tonight at Shelburn. Should field. Mr. Stratton was also a Irons of Evansville, Lester Irons the Panthers win today's game, a pioneer in this business. In 1931 of Indianapolis and John Irons, third game will be played at' the the Compaiy began to expand in at whose home he died; one 4-H Club Fairgrounds in Sullivan I addition to the office at Sullivan daughter, Mrs. Esther Johnson of at 9 a. m. Saturday morning. A and Linton, by 1937 he had

Pontiac, Mich.; one sister, Mrs. Ola Smith of Illinois, and several nieces and nephews. The body of the deceased was taken to the MJcClanahan Funeral home at Jasonville and will be returned to the home of the son, John, at 5 o'clock this afternoon. Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon at the Claiborne church with Rev. Bert Sanders and Rev. C. E. Homberger officiating. Burial will be made in the Claiborne ceme tery.

Golden Arrows Tangle With Gerstmeyer Tech PROBABLE STARTING LINE-UPS Tech pos. Sullivan Uzzel k ... Wernz (34) Wev It J. Brown (38) fTaSS lg Oldham (55) gu.mbIe c Raley (14) J, rg Smith (35) P0"0 rt .... Kaiser (38) Hollers re Anderson m

Ealo.oley Workman lh Starkey ... Higginbotham Place: Sportland Field. Time: 8 p. m. Sullivan's Golden Arrows, crippled as a result of injuries received in the Garfield game last Friday night, meet their second Western Indiana Conference opponent tonight at Sportland field I Black Cats will be the visiting team as the Arrows play their second home game of the season. Game time is 8 p. m. George Laskey, who has a badly smashed finger, will not start and the chances are that he will not be able to play at all. Doc' Oldham will replace him in the starting line-up at left guard. And as he has done in most of the other games, Coach Bill Jones is forced to juggle his backfield again. This time, Cal Hilgediek, who has had a bad cold all week, will not be able to start. Instead, Carter will be at

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LUCAS WARNS ON FAILURE TO PROVIDE AID SPRINGFIELD, 111., Oct. 3 (UP) United States Senator Scott W Lucas, D., 111., said today that unless volley!, fiidmb emergency aid to ; Western Europe by Dec 1, the United States must be prepared to spend $100,000,000,000 for hemisphere defense within the next four years. Lucas, in an interview, said

cuiupe is now a pusu-uvei iw - Communism that he says he "went through" "And if Communism ever gets'DePauw and Purdue in about a foothold in this hemisphere, we three months and that was the would be in real danger," he , end of his schooling. He says, said. j however, that he has learned a

i,i that if ; Congress lets Europe i "sink or swim" without Ameri can help, the United States must be ready to spend $25,000,000,000 a year for the next four years to defend the shores of North and South America. L He said that there was no question but what Communism was a world movement. Lucas said that if the Senate committee hearing on European relief are not concluded before Dec.l, that calling Congress back to consider a relief program would be an empty gestura. He said whether a special session of Coneress is called will depend on the speed with which these committees end their hearings. He also warned that unlimited debate in the Senate might result in "interminable arguments" over the relief program and would very easily turn into a filibuster. "But unless Congress can be convinced that speedy action is necessary, a special session of Congress would avail us nothing," he warned. MEROM BEATS SHELBURN IN FIRST GAME Merom's Beavers won the first i

game of a two out of three rame Stratton was greatly resoonsibl3 play-off for the county Boftballjfor the passage of this first i&w

victory for the Beavers will end the series. ' Hackett and Rinard were the winning battery for the Beavers, while Gardner was the losing pitcher for the Panthers. Santus caught for Shelburn. Two home runs were hit in the game, with Tom Santus hitting one for the losers in the third innine with two men nn haao ir, Turpen banging one for the Bea vers in the sixth inning with one man on base. qb Carter (33) Pinkston (88) rn fb Scully (6G) Brodie (77) quarterback, Brodie at fullback, Pinkston at left half, and Scully. at right half. Rnth T)mt,tnn nnA C..11.. "u unj, iC bothered with sore knees, and in addition, Stan has had a touch of !L m W " The Tech Black Cats come to Sportland Field with a record of a win and two losses. The Cats beat Clinton last week by 14 to 0, after dropping games to Linton and Robinson. The Cats have built their attack around two backs, Workman, who will probably open the game at left half, and Higginbotham, who should start at fullback. The Sullivan High School Girls' Drum and Bugle Corps will march at half-time tonight, with the high school band performing before the game starts.

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G. H. Stratton Honored At Anniversary Banquet

C. H. Stratton of Sullivan, better known to his friends as Cuppy Stratton, was the honor guest at a banquet last night at the Sullivan Hotel. The occasion his fiftieth year of continuous hlSinMS in Runivan Thirtv-fi 'employees with their wives and husbands fronV the offices in Linton, Vincennes, Washington and Sullivan were present. Total years of service with the organization were 308 for those present. Mr. Stratton was born in Sulli-

van on December 17. 1874. He.day acknowledged some mis-

attended the local schools Affpr (few things since, in the school o experience. tie started in business upstairs

in a back room over the Old , Secretary Kenneth U. Koyau inBank Euilding which was- thenidicated there would be no dislocated cn the northwest corner , ciplinary action against Lee, the of the square. The front office former Mediterranean, cornwas occupied by the late John T. j mander who has applied for reHays, founder of the Havs & itirement.

Hays law firm of Sullivan. After a few discouraging months he found he could not make ends l meet and was ready to quit. His father, the late J. P. Stratton, i came to his rescue and offered , him some space in an upstairs j jroom over his harness shop lo-'i cated on the east side of -the square, rent free. That little boost and encouragement by his father did the trick and his business began to increase which meant the difference between success and failure. He measured snd sold men's suits for the Kahn Tailoring Company of Ind ianapolis. The same year, 1897. he decided to enter the field of lending money. A little later ha moved his office to the northeast corner of the square over what is now the Bus Station and Jaterto the Davis Hotel block. In 1907 he moved to the present location of the Fidelity Loan Company on the east side of the square. .. In 1917 the first Small T..o;-. Act was passed in Indiana .ind has serve as a model law in most lof the. states, Indiana being the f irst state to pass the law. Mr branch offices in Vincennes, Seymour, Mt. Vernon, Indiana, and Centralia, Illinois," and ater one at Washington, Indiana. When World War II came along so many in the organization were called into the service, that it was necessary to dispose of the outlying branches. At present the Company has four branch offices in Indiana. Mr. Stratton attained national prominence in his line of business, having been President of the National Association of Small Loan Companies for two terms. He has always been interested in civic affairs and. during World War I was very active in county and state war work. v On February 17, 1903. he married Winifred M. Fehon of Orange, New Jersey, They have one son, Jos. P. Stratton, who is married and lives in Sullivan. Together with Mrs. Stratton he has traveled to all parts of tha world and when asked what he thought about world conditions he said, "All I know is what I read and I don't understand t much of that. As far as I am concerned the United States of America is by far the best country in the world and that goes for Indiana and Sullivan County too." KELLY FUNERAL gET F0R SATURDAY Funeral services for Rov D. Kelly, age 59, of Graysville who " " " ' . f died at hjs home at 8 a m ves terday will be conducted Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock at ih Billman funeral chapel. Burial wiI1 be in the Union Chapel Cemetery. ' The body will lie in state at the funeral home. ' ' LINTON PLAYS LAPORTE TONIGHT Linton High School will . play the LaForte Slicers tonight at Linton, according to word received from Linton High School. The schedule sent out by the high school had the game sched uled for Saturday night, but the game will be played tonight.

FRIDAY, OCT. 3, 1947.

ARMY HEAD CLEARS LEE Of WRONG INTENT WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 (UP) The Army High Command totreatment in the treatment of T, . ,, . ... G.I.'s in the Mediterranean theatre, as charged by ScrippsHoward Columnist Robert Ruark -but it absolved Lieut Gen. John C. II. Lee of any "wrong intent. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, in, a statement endorsed by Army Eisenhower's statement was based on the finding of Maj. Gen. Ira T. Wight, the Army Inspector General. Wight reported after an on-the-spot investigation and said that Ruark presented a "wholly false picture of conditions," but his 12,000 word report conceded that he found "some minor dejficiencies" that partly supported Ruark's charges. WORLD WIDE COMMUNION SERVICE TO BE OBSERVED AT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH World Wide Conjmuriion services will be held at the Presbyjterian church Sunday morning at 10:43. Ttfls unique service begin last Saturday night in Japan and continues around the world ending Monday morning. Every member and friend of the church should be at the Lord's table Sunday. Rally Day will also be observed in our Sunday . School Sunday 'with a special program. BROOKLYN WINS, 3 TO 2 The Brooklyn Dodgers tied up the Wojld Series at two games apiece "frhen Lavasrctto, a pinch hitter, beltei a double with two men on base and (two men out in the last half of the n'nth inning: to win the ball game. Hugh Casey was the winning pitcher, whije Bevens was the loser. The Dodgers only got one hit in the ball game, Lavagetto's winning hit. NEW SUITS Change of Venue from Superior Court of Vigo County No. 2 their cause No. 20970. Ellen 'Bell Means vs. Jesse L. Means. Com plaint for divorce. ch e of Venue from cay County Circuit Court their cause No. 9269. Evelyn Looney vs. Isaac M. Jackson. Complaint for damages. Katherine Skinner vs. Ivan Skihner. Complaint for divorce, custody, alimony and support. Evelyn Medley vs. Eugene Medley. Complaint for divorce. HOSPITAL NOTES Admitted Oct. 3: George Lisman, 405 South State Street ior tonsillectomy. Dismissed Oct. 2: Sam Henderson, Shelburn; Stanley Arnett, Carlisle route one; Ray Steele, 249 West Wolfe Street.

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IN ALLENTOWN, PA., Police Chiel Wayne winou veil), uiiks wuu his abductor, Erbor Julius Worseck, 23, in police station after gunman's capture. Worseck abducted Elliott through cordon of police &nd took him for wild two-hour drive, (lat ernational SoundphotoX

GRAIN PRICES START TREND

DOWNWARD (By United Press) Butter, eggs, and grain prices appeared to be starting on the downward trend today, but the cost of meat on the hoof continued to climb on the nation's big markets. Heavy selling on the Chicago Board of Trade skidded grain prices lower yesterday. Eggs and butter also headed downward. Eggs dropped more than 2 cents a dozen and butter dropped 2 cents a pound. At New York, Louis Champlin, Federal market analyst, predicted that butter would drop of a cent more todayThe decline had its effect on the retail market, too. Butter, was 2 cents a pound cheaper than it was last week. ' Meat on the hoof kept climbing. Hqgs advanced 50 cents a . hundredweight in Chicago, Omaha, and St. Paul. Cattle and sheep prices continued at a high peak. In California, however, housewives in San Mateo and San Carlos were putting up such resistance to high prices that independent and chain stores slashed prices to keep business. Meanwhile, as the national campaign to save 100,000,000 bushels of grain for export to Europe got under way, the government moved to insure a wheat crop in 1948 that will be even larger than the record crops of the last three years. The Department of Agriculture asked farmers to sow 4,000,000 more acres in wheat than last year. If the wheat yield continues high, the acreage,, would insure the nation its fourth straight record wheat "harvest. . - COUNTY SOCIETY FOR CRIPPLED TO MEET OCT, 10 The Sullivan County Society for Crippled Children will see the new sound and color motion picture, "Comeback," at its meeting on Friday, October 10, at the ! Sullivan Public Library, it was ,'innounced today by Charles O. Campbell, Counselor, Vocational Rehabilitation Division, who is booking the film for showing to ! local organizations. The picture shows how handicapped civilians overcome their physical or mental difficulties through the services of State agencies, such as Vocational Rehabilitation Division. Among the highlights of the picture are Jane Froman, singing a portion of "You Go To . My Head"; Tami Mauriello, in training for his recent fight with Joe Louis; Bill Stern, giving a fast and snappy sports broadcast, and Al Capp, creator of Li'l Abner, Lena the Hyena, and other comic strip characters. Capp is shown putting the finishing touches on Li'l Abner. Miss Froman, Mauriello. Stern and Capp have all I overcome grave physical handi caps. The film is intended for nontheatrical showing to civic, employer, social, welfare, medical, teaching, labor and other groups. MARRIAGE LICENSES Claude Davis, Sullivan route and Lagethel Burk, Sullivan.

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JAMES R R1GGS DIES TODAY OFCEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE Prominent Citizen Once Served As Assistant Secretary Of Agriculture For Woodrow Wilson. James R. Riggs, .age 82, prominent resident of Sullivan, passed-away this morning at .9:10 at his . home on West Washington Street, Death was due to a cerebral hemorrhage suffered Wednesday morning. Mr. Riggs, who had been to his farm north of Sullivan and had' driven his car home, suffered the stroke upon his return. .

GREEK ACCUSED OF CAUSING CIVIL WAR UNITED NATIONS FLUSHING, N. Y., Oct, Ukrainian Foreign HALL, 3 (UP) Minister Dimitri Maneilsky directly confronted Greek Foreign Minister Constantin Tsaldaris and accused him today of being responsible for the lireeK crisis. Maneilsky, the heavily mustachioed old-time Soviet revolutionist, linked Tsaldaris with a "plot by the United States and Britain to place the blame for the Civil war in Greece on Yugoslavia, Albania) and Bulgaria through bying testimony." ' Tsaldaris sat impassively as Maneilsky pointed at him and shouted: "Mr. Tsaldaris is one of the real cuplits of the culprits of the situation and his is the great responsibility for the conditions in Greece." He followed the maiir theme of the Soviet attack charging the United States and Britain with trying to cover up- their illegal intervention in Greece by blaming other countries. ; Referring to recent negotiations between American . and British officials in Athens and Greek "officials on charges in the Greek government, Maneilsky said: "The United States and Great Britain intervention in Greek affairs is becoming more flagrant. They are now creating a puppet government in Athens and the American press is reporting such action." REFUGEES SAY BRITISH NAVY USED TEAR GAS JERUSALEM, Oct. 3. (UP) Jewish refugees charged today that British boarding parties used tear gas against them when the Royal Navy seized their immigration ship as it entered Palestinian waters. The refugee ship, the North lands, renamed the Jewish State, ddeked in Haifa today. More than 2,000 angry, screaming refugees, packed like sardines in, the 1,940ton vessel clamored that "they tear gassed us." The Jews lined the rails of the Northlands ; as the British Navy escorted it into the harbor at Haifa. They chanted, "Spain, Germany, Greece,, England, too?" The Northlands was seized with a sister refugee ship, the Paducah, renamed . the Redemption, when they left the Black Se. Those aboard the Paducah gaVe in quietly, and already were bound for Cyprus abroard British transports. They had no sooner docked than a British Army loudspeaker bellowed the word that they would be takeH to Cyprus. "You will remain on the ship until then," the announcement said. The announcement set off a wailing chorus aboard ,the ship, "We want to go to Palestine." On another front in Palestine, the Arabs' quit work in a general strike in protest against the rec ommendations of the United Nations that Palestine be partitioned. ABSENTEE BALLOT AFFIDAVITS READY Persons who are eligible to vote, but will not be able to get to the polling places on election day may arrange to vote now by signing an affidavit at the County Clerk's office, James H. Ringer said today. Mr. Ringer also said that Monday is the last day for voters to register for the November city elections. .

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Mr. Riggs was born February 17, 1865 at Shelburn and was the son of the late Commodore P. Riggs and Martha Ryerson Riggs. He was a member of the first graduating class of Sullivan High School and later attended DePauw University. . On Sept. 11, 1895, Mr. Riggs was united in marriage to Mis3 Bessie Lewman, to which union four children were born. One daughter, Esther Riggs, died in 1913. , Mr. Riggs a leader in civic and political affairs in the county, became actively engaged in farming, and continued this interest i throughout his life. He was Aud itor of Sullivan County from' 1896 to 1900, He helped organize the Sullivan National Bank and the Sullivan County -Loan and Trust Co., and was president of the latter until 1914. Mr. Riggs brought recognition to Sullivan County when he was appointed Assistant Secretary of Agriculture in the Woodrow Wilson Administration, and lived in Washington, D. C, during that period. He was a member of the Indiana Tax Commission for a number of years and was also a member of the National Producers Association for several years: Mr. Riggs was a 32nd degree Mason and retained his membership in the Shelburn Masonic Lodge. He was also a charter member of the B. P, O. E. No. 911 and was its first Exalted Ruler. He was also a member of the Presbyterian Church here at Sullivan . , ' ' - The survivors f besides the widow, are three daughters, Mrs. Frances Young of Indianapolis, Mrs. Bruce Lowry of " Dallas, Texas, and Mr. Van Saht Richeson of St. Louis, Mo.; a grandson, James S. Lowry of Dallas, Texas, and one sister, Mrs. Jessie Shoffner of Greensburg, Indiana. Funeral services will be held at the Billman Funeral Home Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. SHOOTING WAR IS THREATENED BY BRITISH LONDON, Oct. 3. (UP) An Exchange Telegraph agency dispatch from Haifa today said thaf the British had warned the Jewi ish Agency that a "shooting war" might start if any more British vessels are damaged by Jewish refugees resisting boarding parties. Exchange Telegraph said the ultimatum had been sent to agency representatives in both Jerusalem and London. A Jewish spokesman here said that no ultimatum had been received and that he had not heard anything about one being received hi Jerusalem. . "The British government told the Jewish agency that they would not be responsible for the loss of life in the future," the Ext change snid. "This outright ulti matum followed severe damage to two destroyers attempting to board the President Warfield (Exodus 1947) off Palestine last June. Both destroyers had their starboards ripped from stem to stern and were battered during the boarding." Exchange Telegraph said the starplates of the destroyer were damaged yesterday when the Jews on the refugee ship resisted the boarding party. ! CORRECTION The baby girl born September 30th to Mr. and Mrs. George Deckard of Dugger at the local hospital has been named Janice Gay instead of Juanita Gay as was inadvertently reported. ( TODAY'S TEMPERATURES' The unofficial temperatures in Sullivan today were: at 7:30 a. m 60 degrees at noon 76 degrees