Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 49, Number 228, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 14 November 1947 — Page 1

WEATHER . RAIN SATURDAY Indiana: Rain beginning tonight and continuing tomorrow, Slowly rising temperatures. Only DUj Newspaper In 8 DIXIT AN COUNTY VOL. XLIX No. 228 UNITED PRESS SERVICE INTERNATIONAL, PICTURE SERVICE PRICE THREE CENTS SULLIVAN DAILY TIMES FRIDAY, NOV. 14, 1947.

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SEVEN DEAD AS COMMUNIST RIOTS IN ITALY SPREAD IN FIGHT ON MARSHALL PLAN Red Leader Says Revolution Possible But Not Expected Now; Rome Police Prepare For Demonstration. (By United Press) Violence spread over Italy and mounted in the Communist stcrm center of Marseille, France, today as the Communist leaders warned cryptically that "democratic revolutions are always possible." The Italian death toll in the rioting between Communists and right wing Fascist groups mounted to seven with the assassination of Serrucco Gatti, a Fascist general. Seventeen major Italian cities, - including Naples, Turin, Milan, TLJIDft UHDCn II Genoa, Casserta, Maria, and Co-. Mini J Ml IF fN II

mo were affected and in all, trouble was reported in a hundred separate points. In Rome, mounted carabiniers and k tank reserves took up strategic positions around the vital, principal squares in anticipation of a Communist demonstration. Despite Togliatii's crypt ic remark, it was not believed that the Communists planned any actual revolutionary outbreak at this time. The immediate objective of the Communists was the weakening of the government of Premier Alcide de Gasperi and the defeat, if possible, of the Marshall aid-to-Europe program. i The principal objectives of the Communist attacks were the right-wing and quasi Fascist organizations. In the last few days, an estimated 300 right-wing newspaper offices ''and political headquarters have been sacked, particularly those of the Socialist "Common Man" party. New riots broke out in Milan today, where a textile store owned by an Italian Socialist party leader was smashed and looted. M All CHRISTMAS SEALS IN COUNTY Miss Norma Kelley, Executive Secretary of the Sullivan County Tuberculosis Association today issued a formal "thank you" to the girls of Sullivan Girl Scout Troop for their assistance in preparing the annual Christmas Seals for mailing to Sullivan countisns. The girls have been working diligently since Wednesday in their after-school hours to get the seal shipments in order and will address the lot this evening. Scoutleader Mrs. Edith Miller simultaneously released a call for all Girl Scouts of Troop 5 to meet Miss Keley at the Sherman Building Saturday morning at 10 o'clock to distribute window posters pertaining to the drive throughout the business district. The entire, enrollment of Troop 5 are figuring in the "TB" fund drive preparation which Mrs. Miller stated today was in their opinion "one of the best ways in which they can serve their community, state and nation." GRAYSVILLE TO PRESENT JUNIOR CLASS PLAY The Junior Class of Graysville , High School will present its classplay, "That Perkins Family", in I the Graysville Gym, Monday, November 17 at 8:00 p. m The cast is as follows: Pop Perkins Duane Monk M;om Perkins . Vangie Perkins Marjorie Payne Mary Gilbreath I Jerry Perkins Dick Pethtel Sara, the maid Mary Elsie Dudley Dr. Eldridge ..... John Coffman Mr. Umber Roy Parsons Polly Sims Barbara Osburn Dick Turner . . Kennelh Borders Mr. Effineton Monte Rises Mr. Worthington Bob Huff HOSPITAL NOTES Admitted Nov. 14: George Lord of Sullivan, R. 4. Dismissed Nov. 13: Mrs. Virgil Cox and son of Dugger, R. 1. Dismissed Nov. 14: Mrs.. Lou Shoptaw of Farmersburg; Mrs. Walter Reeves of 714 South Main Street; Blanche Daugherty of Pleasantville. NEW SUITS Virginia Means vs. Malcolm Means. Complaint for divorce and alimony. Edward A. Billman and Robert H. Billman. partners doing business by and under the firm name and style of Billman Funeral Home vs. Roscoe J. Eller, Marjorie E. Eller. Complaint on notes and specific performances.

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SACRAMENTO, Calif., Nov. 14. (UP) The Far West today presented its candidate for the Republican nomination for President of the United States 56-year-old Governor Earl Warren of California. Warren announced his candidacy yesterday after a meeting with the chairman and vicechairman of the California Republican committee. They brought him a resolution urging him to seek the support of the California delegation to the Republican convention and to allow his name to be placed in nomination. "No greater honor could come to a governor of California," Warren said, "and for the confidence thus expressed I am humbly grateful." Warren stated flatly tlfat he was not interested in the VicePresident nomination. He turned down such an offer in the 1944 Republican National, Convention. The California governor thus becomes the third avowed candidate for the Republican nomination. The others are Harold Stassen of Minnesota, and Senator Robert A. Taft, Ohio.' NAVY RECRUITER HERE4 MONDAY A Navy recruiter will be in Sullivan on Monday, November 17th. He will locate at the City Hall from 11 a.m. to noon and from 2 p. m. to 3 p. m. Chief Clifford T. Loos, recruiter in charge of the Terre Haute Navy Recruiting Station announced that the Navy is seeking thousands of young men to train for the highly skilled job of electronics. Any young man between the ages of 17 and 31 who has a good high school education and is interested in this new science should contact his recruiter for a trial examination in electronics. The Navy's School of Electronics is believed to be the only service school that offers such a lengthy and intensive course in all phases of electronics. This course would cost thousands of dollars at a civilian school, yet the Navy offers it free in addition to room, board, high pay, medical expenses and many other benefits. ... Loos stated that there have been far too few men take advantage of this opportunity in consideration of the fact that most city schools including Sull'van- Hieh School teach the reenured subjects to become elig ible for a career in Navy elec tronics. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Cox of Dugper. R. 1. are the parents of a son, Larry Wayne, horn November 13th at' the Mary Sherman Hospital Mr. and Msr. Elbert McCammon of Paxton, announce the birth of a son, Norman Leon, born November 13th at the Mary Sherman Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Clouse of Farmersburg, R. 2, are 'the parents of a son, Timothy Ray, born November 13th at the Mary Sherman Hospital. VISITS COUNTY INFIRMARY . The members ' of the Harriett Long Bible class of the Baptist church visited the County In firmary Wednesday and distributed gifts and fruit. afternoon . of candy

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V- A PROBE STOCKS MEYERS HELD WHILE OFFICER WASHINGTON. Nov. 14. (U.R) A Department of Justice spokesman testified in the Senate war contract investigation today that he thought an anonymous letter about Major-General Bennett E. Meyers' stock dealings contained sufficient facts to war- ! rant an investigation. The Department of Justice is following closely the story of. Meyers' activities while serving I as a procurement officer. The De- j partment, it was learned, has ob- 1 tained Meyers' personal records from the Air Force. Chairman Homer Ferguson, R., I ivncn., poimea oui yesieruay uiai ! it is a criminal, offense for any one holding interest in a corporation doing business with the government to represent the government as "an officer or an agent'' in dealings with such companies. This Federal statute, Ferguson said, carries a maximum penalty of two years' imprisonment and a fine of $2,000 for each offense. Ferguson did not accuse Meyers, a retired major-general, of violating the statute. He merely quoted from the statute , before asking committee investigators to read a list of Meyers' stock holdings. ' Meyers has not yet presented his side of the case. Legal authorftises, said that even if the testimony", about all his stock dealings; were' proved true, there is sothe iuestioriJ as ' to whether the government' can take any action because ot. the three-year statute of" limitations. ' '. INDIANAPOLIS, Nov.. 14. (UP) Hogs, 7,000; fairly active; good and choice 180-225 lbs., $25.25; strictly choice, $25.35 $25.50; 160-180 lbs. and 225-250 lbs., $25.00; 250-350 lbs., $24.50 $24.75; 350-400 lbs., $24.25; 100160 lbs., $22.75 $24.00; sow market strong; bulk, $22.75 $23.75; extra heavies, $22.50. - Cattle, 500; calves, 300; market nominally steady; few good beef cows, $15.50 $17.50; common and medium, $12.50 $15.00; vealers active, steady; good and choice, $28.00 $31.00; common and medium uneven at $17.00 $26.50. Sheep, 1,000; fat lambs steady, strong; extremely top, 50c higher; bulk good and choice, $21.00 $23.00; few loads, $23.50; strictly choice to prime, $23.75 $24.00 sparingly; medium and good, $18.00 S20.50; common and medium, $14.00 $17.50; slaughter ewes steady; medium to choice, $5.00 $8.00; odd choice light weights to $8.50.

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' 4 ri y r o tt x ' 4 ISHANG GERMAN WAR CRIMINALS MUNCH, Germany, Nov. 14. (UP) Eight German war criminals were hanged today at Landsberg Prison for atrocities committed at Dachau concentration camp and for the murder of surrendered United States fliers. Herman Stolz, age 34, was executed for leading a mob of German civilians who killed eight American airmen in Ruesselsheim in 1944. Karl Eggert, age 50," was hanged for shooting a surrendered American flier near Nentershausen. Two other Germans were sent to prison for twelve years and for three and a half years for the murder of. woman prisoners at Deggendorf. TO SPEAK AT BAPTIST CHURCH The Rev. J. Cooper, of Terre Haute, will be the guest speaker at the morning services of the Baptist church on Sunday. The Rev. Thomas Jennings will conduct the evening services:' FOOTBALL TEAM TO SEE I. U. GAME The members of the Sullivan High School football xteam will be taken to Bloomington tomorrow to see the Indiana-Marquette football game. ' GETS BROKEN LEG IN GAME Bill Flynn, center on . the Golden Arrow football team, suffered a broken, bone in the leg in the Linton-Sullivan game Armistice Day, an X-ray has hown. It was the little bone in he back of the leg. Guilty of Treason JUIIU MANIU, 75-year-old antiCommunist Peasant party chief, has been found guilty of treason by a Romanian military court and sentenced to hard labor for the rest of his life. Verdict climaxes long trial in Bucharest during which Mar.iu and 18 co-defendants were accused of espionage in behalf of the 'United States and Britain. (International)

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r f its; PLAN PROBE , INTO BRITISH BUDGET RELEASE LONDON, Nov. 14 (UP) Parliamentary sources said today that the . House of ' : Commons might order a formal inquiry into Hugh Dalton's advance disclosure of budget information which led to his resignation as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Sir Stafford Cripps succeeded as chancellor, thus becoming the unprecedented economic and financial chief of Great Britain. The opposition, headed by Conservative Winston Churchill and Liberal Clement Davies, introduced a motion in Commons asking for the appointment of a select committee to inquire into the circumstances of the disclosure of the budget items. Dalton gave them to The Star Wednesday, shortly before he announced the budget in Commons. . Some quarters had thought that the motion would be dropped because of Dalton's resignation after he confessed his indiscretion to the House yesterday. But informed sources at the House said that the opposition had decided to press its demand for an official inquiry. Dalton's resignation was the first major change and the biggest sensation since labor came to power more than two years ago. TO END FOOTBALL CAREERS SATURDAY Two former Golden Arrow football players will finish their college football careers Saturday when Indiana State and Ball State: meet at Muncie. Red Faught, who will probably start at quarterback, and Stan Sajko, who will probably start at end, will ' be playing their last game for the Sycamores. CANTEEN GIRLS v ENTERTAIN MOTHERS The girls of the Teen Canteen will entertain their mothers Monday night, Nov. 17, at 6 p. m.,. with a covered dish dinner at the canteen. All mothers who have sons belonging to the canteen are invited to attend. Entertainment will be furnished after the dinner. WALLACE COMPLETES ARMY COURSE Pfc. John L. Wallace, of Sullivan, has completed a fifteenweek course in the welding school at Chanute Field, 111. He was stationed at the Lackland Air Base in San Antonio, Texas, before attending the school at Chanute Field. ANNOUNCE MARRIAGE Mr. and Mrs. Marion Chambers of Carlisle, R. 1, announce the marriage ,of their daughter, Marjorie, to Pfc. John Self Jr. of Fort Worth, Texas. They are residing in quarters at Pine Camp at Watertown, New York.

75 m?sWsyu OPEN TICKET SALES BY MAIL FOR I. U. CONCERT BLOOMINGTON, Nov. 14. The mail order ticket sale has been oDened for the Boston Symphony Orchestra which will appear on the Indiana University auditorium series Thursday evening, Dec. 4, Harold W. Jordan, director of I. U. auditorium proI grams', announced today. The box office sale of tickets for ttjis attraction will begin Nov. 19. I With the celebrated Serge Koussevitzky conducting, th i Boston Symphony Orchestra last I season was heard by more than 800.000 peonle in concerts. Mr. Koussevitzky returned from Europe Oct. 1 to open the present season Oct. 10 in Symphony Hall, Boston. This season lists as many, I concerts as last. The Saturday and Tuesday evening series in , Boston, the series in New York, i Brooklyn. Providence and Cam bridge are already completely subscribed. Concerts also wilL be given in New Haven, Hartford and New London, Conn.; Northampton, Mass.; New Brunswick, N. J.; Philadelphia, Pa.; Washington, D. C; Pittsburgh, Pa.; Cincinnati, Ohio; , Bloomington and South Bend, Ind.; ' Chicago; Ann Arbor and Detroit, Mich., and Rochester, N. Y. BLAST WRECKS ROCKET PLANT IN ENGLAND WESTCOTT, England, Nov. 14 (UP) Dr. J. Schmidt, top German rochet scientist, brought to Britain to aid in experimental work, was killed today in an explosion at the experimental station here. One other man was killed and eight seriously injured in the blast. A number of other German scientists were reported among 'those injured. I Secret fuel for rocket propulsion exploded. The supply ministry experimental station was rocked by the blast at a site where fiel for asjsisting plane take-offs was be,ing developed. No planes were involved, offiicials reported. 'Experiments were being made on rockets to assist aircraft take off," a spokesman said. Emergency areas from nearby towns sped to' the scene. LOCAL CHURCH PLANS SERVICES The Church of Christ, 118 N. State St., Sullivan, will begin a series of gospel meetings on Monday, Nov. 17, and will continue them until Nov. 30, with Bro. A. B. Kepple in charge of the services. A song rally has been planned for Sunday, Nov. 23, at 2:30 p4 m., with Bro. Jules Brewer, of Bloomington conducting the singing.

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SUBCOMMITTEES REPORT ON INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE HIGH COST OF LIVING One Group Proposes Rationing Of Scarce Goods; Other Group Opposes Any Return To Rationing Or Price Control.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14. (UP) A Congressional subcommittee today proposed twelve lines of attack on the high cost of living, including higher exemptions for dependents of income tax payers and consideration of consumer rationing of scarce goods. The proposals were submitted, to Senator Robert A Taft's joint Congressional economic committee by one of its three principal investigating subcommittees. The subcommittee group was headed by Senator Ralph P. Flanders, R.,

Vt. STEERS BRING RECORD PRICE IN CHICAGO CHICAGO, Nov. 14 (UP) Prime steers sold for $38 a hun dredweight today, a new alltime high for the nation's livestock markets at the Chicago Stockyards. The price, was paid for one load of prime 1,325-pound animals. Steer prices have been inching steadily forward despite hopeful government 'food conservation leaders beliefs that the conservation program would serve to bring down the price of meat b reducing the demand. The best previous price paid here in regular trading including the auction sales which follow the major Midwestern stock shows was $37 a hundredweight paid on Oct.C25, 1946, and again on Nov. 18, 1946. . JEWS KILL FOUR BRITISH MEN IN PALESTINE JERUSALEM, Nov. 14 (UP) Machine guns of Jewish underground killed four more British today, raising to fifteen the death toll in three days of violence in Palestine. The assassination from ambush of two British soldiers and two constables were attributed by authorities to underground Sternists seeking revenge for the death of five of their group in a British raid on a training center Wednesday. Two soldiers were shot dead as they walked along the busy thoroughfare of Tel Aviv at 11 a. m. Two constables were shot less than four hours later as they strolled in civilian clothes along Jaffa Road near the Mustapha police station in Jerusalem. As one of the constables fell mortally wounded, he shot at one of his assassins. He hit a four- , year-old girl playing in ' the street. N. T. WASHBURN DIES TODAY Nathan T. Washburn, age 47, of 3659 Watson Road, Indianapolis, 'died early this morning of a heart attack. He was the husband of Musetta Usrey Wash- . burn, a former resident of Sullivan. Funeral arrangements are ( pending. LINTON FORMS QUARTERBACK CLUB A Downtown Quarterback club I has been formed at Linton to help boost athletics. The first meeting was held Wednesday night at which time the members of the Linton football team were. introduced to the members. Georgia Lumbering Booms ATLANTA, Ga. (UP) Georgia's booming lumber industyr, answering an unprecedented demand for southern pine and hardwoods, is yielding more money than at any time in its history. The state department of forestry reports that the industry is producing at a $120,000,000 rate per year, with each wooded acre contributing $4.50 to the state's annual income.

The Flanders report was handed to the full committee along with another from a subcommittee headed by Representative George H. Bender, R., Ohio. Both groups urged against the restoration of price controls but they agreed on little else. Flanders' group urged consideration at least of a return to consumer rationing of scarce foods such as meat, butter, and dairy products. The Bender report flatly rejected rationing. The Bender group was more in line with the thinking of Repub-, lican Congressional leaders who have been firm opponents to the restoration of rationing. The Flanders report offered a broad domestic program with, emphasis on voluntary measures.

TWO RAILROADS UNIONS GIVEN PAY INCREASE ' CHICAGO, Nov. 14 (UP) Two railroad brotherhood representing about 200,000 operating employees reached an agreement with the nation's major railroads today calling for a fifteen and a half cent an hour wage increase. The two unions were the brotherhood of railroad trainmen and the order of railroad conductors. The wage increase will be retroactive to Nov 1. Three other brotherhoods, representing about 150,000 op erating workers, still arenegotiaing wages and work rules with the railroads. Itt was the first time that a national wage ageement had been reached in the railroad industry without government interven tion. The negotiations began on Oct. 7. CONSERVATION MEN TO MEET LAFAYETTE, Ind., Nov. 14 Soil Conservation leaders fron over the state will assemble n the Turkey Run State Park Hotel for their annual two-daj meeting Thursday and Friday Nov. 20 and- 21, according tc plans announced today by R. O Cole, Purdue University extenj sion , soil conservationist, an secretary of the State Soil Con- ; servation Committee which is ii i charge of arrangements for th- . meeting. Opening the sessions will be r panel Thursday afternoon led by Paul Thompson, Terre Haute member of the State Soil Con nervation Committee. Others oi the panel are Chester Cornetf Plainville; Harry S. Eby, Bristol Turner Biddle, Leiters Ford; W O. Mills, Mooresville; ' WilTiaii Bolt, DePauw; Rollin Stewart Rensselaer; and Denver Mark land, Rising Sun, all farmc supervisors in the conservatioi program. WASHINGTON TESTS POLICE RADIO The Washington Police De partment 'is' testing a new two way radio that has been installs there. Tsts have indicated thn the new FM radio will have : range of eight miles. The radi has been installed at the polic station and in the police cruu car. TODAY'S TEMPERATURES ..The unofficial temperatures i Sullivan today were: at. 7:30 a. m. 34 degre at noon 44 degre