Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 49, Number 229, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 17 November 1947 — Page 1

WEATHER COLDER TUESDAY Indiana: Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday. Colder central portion Tuesday. Only Dally Newspaper In iCLLTVAN COUNT VOL: XLIX No UNITED PRESS SERVICE SULLIVAN DAILY TIMES-MONDAY, NOV. 17, 1947. INTERNATIONAL PICTURE SERVICE PRICE THREE CENTS

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MAY UNSEAT ITALY CABINET ROME, Italy, Nov. 17 (UP)Pietro Castiglotti, the Commun L ist party deputy, charged in Par liament today that the Communists would "attempt a coup dL'stat" In Italy and demanded to ivnuw wuai r-remier Aiciae ae Gasperi's government intended to do about it. 'His question was promptly squelched but the Communists had openly announced that they were trvine to overthrow rf Gasperi's government as a symbol of American aid and were expected to step up a campaign of noting, violence and death to rwai ena. in tnirteen days, it had --l . . I any size in Italy. . It already had come danger ously near revolution. The fear that the Communists mieht be ready for a new phase of violence was advanced yesterday by the spcond serious explosion in t urn fays in an am'munition dump near Milan. PLAN SCHOOL CARNIVAL AT r EHELBURN GYM The annual school carnival at Shelburn will be held Wednes- 1 day, November 19, at 6:30 p. m. i The proceeds from the carnival will go to the school athletic Nfund. A kins anH m.pn Mnw.t. has been selected from each class n the school, and the boy and girl receiving the greatest num-! ber of votes will rrown at ft:30 p. m. The boys selected to be candidates for the king are Kenneth Lane, Alfred French, John Reynolds, Frankie Shipman, Richard Burris, Bobby Stout Larry . Westjohn, Phillip Brus, Tommy Turner, Bucky Browi, Bobby Bolinger, Ronnie Eljis, Kenneth Bolinger, Harold Metheny, Jim Ward, Lloyd Tinher, Tom Santus and Clyde fTaylor. The girls named to be queen andidatefc are Nancy De Wig gins, Kay Grubbs, Patricia Raley, Whuanne Calvin, Jane Bats.on, Marlene Breedlove, Mary Ellen Jrjyman, Rhonda Kay Daniels, Alice Ann Marshall, Rose Marie mmerman, Mary Kate Buckley, thonda Kay Sebring, 'Barbara Wilcut, Jane Lowry, Phyllis Potts, Ruth Chubb, Betty Hill, and Jean Morris. ) , IVAN R. BURK FUNERAL HELD FunPral sprviPPS for Tvan Rppsp Burk, 16 years old, who died at the residence, 622 North ' Broad i Street, at 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon were held at the Full Gospel Mission on East Jackson Street this afternoon at 2 o'clock. fi Interment was made in the "arnsworth Cemeterv. The Railslack Funeral Home was in harge of services. . Surviving are. the parents, Mr.' inH Mrc rwn Rm-ir- throo jiothers, William, Lloyd and -harles, all at home; one sister. ijiauys, ai nome: ana several mnts and uncles. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Mr, and Mrs, Gene Scully of 13412 W. Huron Street, Pontiac, Michigan, are the parents of a ;ix and one-half pound daughrtpr born November 12th at 6:35 (5. m. at the Pontiac General 'Hospital. The little Miss has been named Rebecca Eleanor. jjiMrs. Scully is the. former Ruth M. Bennett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Bennett, of Carlisle, Indiana; Ruth was employed as Laboratory Technician at the Mary Sherman Hospital during the years of 1934, '35 and '36.' ARRESTED FOR DRUNKEN DRIVING Herbert Fuson, age 20, of Fair banks, and Hubert Pound, age 27, of Fairbanks were arrested by Police Officers Brown and Scott Saturday night for operat ing a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating Lliquor. They are both out on bond. 1 JAYCEES MEET THURSDAY NIGHT The Sullivan Junior Chamber of Commerce will meet at the Sullivan Hotel for a dinner meeting Thursday evening at 6:30 o'clock. Reservations for the dinner must be made with Tom Grayson before 10 a. m. Thursday.

ROXANNE NORRIS RITES SUNDAY Funeral services were con

ducted at the Billman funeral chapel Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock for Roxanne Norris, 29 years old, who died at the Mary Sherman Hospital Friday night following an extended illness. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Norris of Sullivan who survive. Two brothers,' Beryl Norns and Robert Norris. also survive. Services were in charse of the Rev. Jack Anderson of the Sullivan iirst Christian Church. Song services were by Nina Anderson companied by Mrs. Jeanette ,Wernz at the organ, Pallbearers were Allan Reed Marii-po .tnhr, w n;io ti I Terrell,' Calvin Hilgedieit, Lee ' French and Clarence Mavf ield. Burial was made in Center Ridsze Cemeterv. AMERICANS REPORTED SAFE IN JAP BLAST SUSHI, Japan, Nov. 17 (UP) All American personnel,, was "present and .accounted for" today following two thunderous explosions of nearly two million pounds of TNT, powder, and shells, in the Eighth Army ord nance department, .a statement ssue(1,by the EiShth Army said x?ay- . Previously, Japanese police at nearby Iayama. reported that . .0r the Amencans were " IO"y "7 Japanese in the area, however, were still on the missing list. Five persons, including an American Negro officer and four Japanese, were kn.own to have been injured. The explosion started wide-spread fires and threw1 screaming red-hot shell fragments over a half mile area. Some "400 Negro troops are stationed at the depot. HYMERA MAN ARRESTED IN TERRE HAUTE Sam Trump, age 70, of mera, was to appear in HyCity Court in Terre Haute this morn ing to answer to a charge of j carrying a concealed weapon. He was arrested Sunday night and held for investigation. Terre Haute police received a call about a prowler at Third and Cruft Streets in Terre Haute and l when they arrived on the scene, .they apprehended Trump running from between the houses. iThey found a blackjack, a lady's i st-watch and a small diamond ring on him, police said, The address where Trump was seen is the address of his divorced wife, police said. Trump told police that he only wanted his possessions. ! HOSPITAL NOTES Admitted Nov. 14: Mrs. Pearl Sallers of Sullivan, R, 1, for Eurgery. Admitted Nov. 15: Donald Wayne Daugherty of Sullivan, R. 1, for treatment; Mrs. Arizona White of Sullivan, R. 1, for treatment; Estel Tarrh of Sullivan, R. 4, for treatment. Admitted Nov. 15: Wanda Andis -of Carlisle, R. 2, for surgery; John Hunter of 403 North Main Street for observation; Mrs. Betty Campbell of Sullivan, R. 4, for surgery. Dismissed Nov. 14: Paul Walker of 554 South Main Street. Dismissed Nov. 15: Mrs. Morgaret Woodard of 620 East Washington Street; George Lord of Sullivan, R. 4. Dismissed No. 16: Mrs. Inez Lord of Sullivan, R. 4. Dismissed Nov. 17: Mrs. E. McKinley of Paxton. , THREE FINED FOR INTOXICATION Leonard A. Krischah, age 30, of Linton and Olan Bunch, age 1 40, of Linton were both fined a aoiiar ana cosis Dy tne jusxice 01 the Peace at Farmersburg last week for intoxication. Robert F. Dunning, age 28, also of Linton, was fined $33.00 for operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor. FOUR ARRESTED FOR INTOXICATION John D. Shepler, age 23, of New Lebanon, Clifford Matthews, age 29, of Sullivan, and ,Fred Shepler, age 50, of New Lebanon are all out on bond after being arrested over the week-end for intoxication.

DEWEY CHOICE OVER TAFT IN GOVERNOR POLL WASHINGTON, Nov. 17. (U.R) Six, of the nation's twenty-five Republican governors favored Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York for the 1948 Republican presidential nomination if it narrowed down to a contest be

tween him and Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, according to a United Press poll. All the Republican governors were polled in the survey,' but most of them shied away from choosing a candidate. Only seven were willing to make a choice, openly or anonymously, between Taft and Dewey at this time. ' Dewey got the nod from six governors from the East, Midwest, and Far ( West. The seventh Governor Thomas J. Herbert of Taft's state of Ohio supported the Senator. Governors of three Western j states picked former Governor Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota as first choice. One of the officials said that if Stassen were eliminated and a decision lay be-' tween Dewey and Taft, he would support Dewey. REPORT BRITISH T AKING TROOPS FROM PALESTINE LONDON, Nov. 17. (UPj Informed Whitehall sources implied today that the evacuation of British troops from Palestine had begun. The War Office hinted that a London Times' dispatch reporting the beginning of the withdrawal was accurate in the main. The War Office said that the report was "incorrect in some parts." The Foreign Office said it was "highly likely" that the evacuation had started. . . . - -,.,,,., . : TENNIS BABY DIES SUNDAY .Nancy Ellen Tennis, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Tennis, of Sullivan, died at the Mary Sherman Hospital last night at 11 o'clock. Surviving are the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Tennis; one sister, Frances Tennis; a brother, Billie Tennis, and . the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Hod Tennis. The body was taken to the Billman Funeral Home. Funeral arrangements are pending. THE RUMOR ISN'T TRUE Rumors around town today were to the effect that a player on the Linton High School football team was married, and that the Miners would be forced to forfeit all games in which that player had participated. The player in question is Max Dye, and records in the Court House at Bloomfield show that he did get married, but it was on Nov. 15, after 'the close of the football season. Dye will, not be eligible for basketball this winter. Hearing Witness 4 ."f'?SSit S ' 1 COL. WILLIAM NUCKOLS, AaF public relations officer, tells the Senate war investigating committee that 1943 rumors "alleged there were some manipulations of lrge stockholdings by certain procurement officers," as the solons delved Into aviation shares reportedly owned by Maj. Gen. Bennett Meyers while he wa a jtop wartime aircraft procurement officer, . Internationall

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COMMUNISM PARK RIDGE,- III., Nov. 17 (UP) National Commander James F. O'Neill, of the American Legion, said that the legion has opened a school in Washington today to train selected agents to "spot and counteract" Com munist subversive activities. O'Neill said the graduates of the school would be sent back to

tneir nome states to train otner iowe(j a mass meeting of resilegionnaires for anti-subversive dents of the North side . area duties'"-"- - .1,-4i,.a' M Mum Rttrnov nee 39.

I The legion is determined to go through with a "sober calculated" ! fight against Communism,- O'JNeiu toia an Americanism rany:. at the, Maine Township High School.' It will use trained agents to meetCommunist propoganda in trying to "undermine our democratic way of life" in a headon fight, O'Neill said. MRS. ELLA NASH DIES AT HOME Mrs. Ella F. Nash, age 71, died at 9 o'clock thfs morning at her home In Carlisle. She was a member of the First Methodist church at Bedford, Indiana, the j Carlisle Order of the Eastern 1 I Stars and the Past Matrons club. I She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Smith, of Carlisle route; a son, James W., of Bed ford; two sisters, Mrs. Anna Leak, ' of Hammond, and Mrs. Lou Van Meter, of Carlisle; two brothers, J. F. Hoke and W. O. I Hoke, both of Carlisle. I I The body was taken to the . Schulze Funeral Home and was returned to the residence .-where it will lie in state. Funeral services will be conducted .Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Bethlehem Methodist church with the Rev. C. A. McCallister officiating. Burial will be made in the adjoining cemetery. HENRY WILLIAMS DIES IN TEXAS .. Mr. and Mrs. Hosea Siner received word of the sudden death on November 13th of Henry Williams of Houston, Texas. He was a former ' resident of East Washington Street and Sullivan County. The funeral was held at the Settogast-Kapf Funeral Home Saturday, November 15th with burial in Houston. Mr. Williams was engaged in the construction business at the time of his death. 1 He is survived by the wife, Flossie, and three children, Max, Donis and Betty. Two grandchildren also survive. NURSES TO MEET There will be a regular busij ness meeting of the Central Southwest District of the Indiana 1 State Nurses Association at the Sullivan Hotel November 21. Dinner will be served at 6:45 followed by an illustrated picture by Dr. Irvin H. Scott. Reservations must be made not later than Wednesday, November 19th with Miss Cook at the hospital.

TODAY'S TEMPERATURES The unofficial temperatures in Sullivan today were: at 7:30 a. m. .... 34 degrees at noon 42 degrees

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STATE POLICE INDIANAPOLIS, .Nov. 17. (UP) Marion County residents, aroused by a series of murders and attacks on women, received l word, from Governor Ralph F. Gates today that "facilities of the 1 State" would be used to investigate criminal conditions in the Indianapolis area. I Governor Gates' statement folV 1V ft V. 11 t f J f ' W3S siam Wednesday night, A letter the group sent to the Governor denounced the county , mfnrwmmt aaencies and claimed that administration of justice had become a "travesty." Several ministers also hit at what they called the "incompetence" of law officials. Robert A. Watts, Negro truck driver arrested as a suspect in the Burney murder, was still being subjected to six-hour questioning, part of the time with lie detectors to test his reactions. He also is a suspect in the Hallowe'en Eve slaying of Mrs. Mabel, Merrif ield, 68-year-old prominent club woman. Failure of "our public prosecutor and grand jury" to bring to trial within "reasonable lengths of time" persons charged with crime was criticized in the letter to the Governor. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Mr. and Mrs. Gene Vickrey of rural route Pittsboro, Indiana, announce the birth of a daughter born November 9th. She has been named Anita Sue. Mrs. Vickrey is the former Margaret Bever. Actress on Trial MADGE MEREDITH, 26, is on trial In Los Angeles charged' with having her former manager and his bodyguard kidnaped and assaulted in a dispute over ownership of a house. Defense is claiming the manager staged a fake kidnaping 'to. blame actress (InternationalX

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JAYCEESWILL SPONSOR CAGE GAME THURSDAY The Sullivan Junior Chamber of Commerce, in a drive to raise funds for Christmas baskets, is planning to sponsor an independ

ent basketball game at the Community Gym on Thursday, Nov. 20. The game will be between the Shelburn Sportsmen and the Boyle's News Stand team. The Sportsmen, one of the better independent teams in the county, are coached by Paul Weekley, who is also a player on the team. Some of the former Shelburn basketball players, including McHugh and Metheny of last year's Panther regional champions, are on the team. Boyle's News Stand is endeavoring to -place a first class club on the floor, and provide local fans with a good independent team. They have scheduled some outstanding teams to appear here. Mt. Carmel, 111., the Illinois state independent champions, and leading teams from Evansville and Terre Haute will appear on the local floor. ' The outstanding attraction of the season will be on New Year's Eve, when the World Champion Kautsky's from Indianapolis will play the News Stand team here. The local team will consist of former county stars. Among them are Rus Mason, of Dugger and Indiana State; Wayne Jackson, of Pleasantville; Dick Sims, Shang Moore, Jackie B. Smith and Bill Sevier, all of Sullivan, and Red Smith, star forward with Evansville tollege. Bill Bryan, six-foot-seven inch center, will join the team when he returns from service. Tickets for the game on Nov. 20 may be purchased at the News Stand or from any member of the Jaycees. TAXPAYERS SET UP PERMANENT ORGANIZATION On Wednesday night, November 5, a group of taxpayers , met in the auditorium of the Court House for the purpose of organizing a permanent Sullivan County Taxpayers Association, to replace the temporary association which was formed in September of this year. This group organized what will be known as the Sullivan County Taxpayers Association. The purpose of the association shall be to see: that the taxpayer gets value received for his tax dollar; that his tax dollar is spent wisely; that all unnecessary expenditures are eliminated in all governmental taxing units of the county. The association elected the following as officers: Gault Pleasant, chairman; Vaughn Jones, vice-chairman; R. P. Akers, treasi urer; and Charles L. Davis, secretary. The following directors were elected: Chas. Bose, Earl Quick and Lester Shepherd from Jackson Township; Harold Marts, Lucius Caton and Riley Greenwood from Curry Township; Zelva Drake and Cecil Johnson from Fairbanks Township; Howard Ed wards and Lawrence Huff from Turmah Township; Elvis Bose, Mrs. Effie Wilson and Walter Routt from Hamilton Township; Chas. Pigg and Ray Deckard from Cass Township; one more to be appointed in Cass Township; John Driver and Walter Shackelford from Jefferson Township; Walter Nash, John Stultz and Owen Collins from -Haddon Township; Lang McCammon and Carl Daniels from Gill Township; and Dr. H. L. Ramsay ,'Ancil Woodard, George Gettinger and Clair E. Merrill elected at large. Everyone who pays any taxes In Sullivan county is invited to become a member of the association. ' The association will gladly support necessary expenditures of taxpayers' money but will oppose unnecessary or unreasonable expenditures. Any further information you might desire concern1 ing the association will be gladI ly furnished. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS ! Mr. and Mrs. Basil McGhee of i2 South Court Street are the parents of a daughter, Davnell, born November 14th at the Mary Sherman Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Noah Osburn of Fairbanks announce the birth of a son, James Dale, born November I5th at the Mary Sherman Hospital. MRS. DILLINGHAM IS RECOVERING ! Mrs. C. O. Dillingham, route 1, is recovering from a fall in which she suffered broken ribs a 1 week ago Friday.

TRUMAN ASKS CONGRESS FORAUTHORITYTORESTORE CONTROLS AND RATIONING President Says If Powers Are Granted It Should Include The Right To Prevent Wage Increases.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17. (UP) President Truman today asked Congress to attack inflation by giving him authority to impose ceilings on wages and prices, and to revive consumer rationing if necessary. Mr. Truman's, domestic anti-inflationary program contained ten basic points on which he asked immediate action by Congress. But he said the government would use the powers only if conditions became more acute. The President asked for authority to put price ceilings only on selected cost-of-living items such as food and clothing, fuel and rent. He asked for rationing authority over the same items as "a preparedness measure on a highly selective basis."

Then he pointed out that price ceiling, "in all fairness" prevent wage increases. INDIA MAY DROP FROM BRITISH UNION UNITED NATIONS HALL, FLUSHING, N. Y., Nov. 17 (UP) India warned Great Britain today that "further de terioration of Indian, relations with South Africa -might force India and Pakistan out of the British Commonwealth of Nations." Mrs. Dijaya Lakshmi Pandit delivered the warning on a final appeal for United Nations Gen eral Assembly censure of the Union of South Africa fot discriminating against Indian nationals living and working in South' Africa. ' The leaders of the Indians, Mrs. Pandit declared, have long held the view that "so long as Indians were regarded as inferior races in the British Commonwealth of Nations, there really was no room in it for a self-respecting India." Too Good To Be True. NEW YORK (UP) Mayor William O'Dwyer opened his eyes ' in . amazement when he heard what Harry W. Goeggel, head of the Dominican Republic's tourist bureau, had to say. The republic, Goeggel said, is building 5,000 four and five-room homes to sell for $1,300, and owners will have 20 years to' pay for them, free of taxes and amortization charges. Sideline Casualty OCONTO, Wis. (UP) The first casualty in opening fall football practice for the Oconto high school team was the student manager, Otsie Aronson, 17. En grossed in watching the workout, Aronson fell off the bench, frac turing his right arm. Succeeds Dalton iHiiHHHi Sir Stafford Crlpps j SIR STAFFORD CR1PPS emerges as the "strong man" of Britain's cabinet on his succession to chancellor of the exchequer post left vacant by Hugh Dalton's resignation. Crlpps will continue as co ordinator of Britain's economic 1 affairs. (I ntf national) I

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The President also outlined before the emergency session of Congress this program to spend millions of dollars against Communism. Associates were quoted as saying that he planned a "tough program to stop inflation here at home." A storm of disapproval already is rising around the foreign and domestic questions that Mr. Truman is expected to raise. Republican leaders and some Democrats are objecting firmly to any controls at the consumer level. Speaker Joseph W. Martin, Jr., of the House, said bluntly that the House would not pass such legislation. Chairman Jesse K. Wolcott, R., Mich., of the House banking committee, said he saw no chance for "another O.P.A." His committee will handle any economic control proposals made by the President. Mr. Truman called his economic advisers to the White House yesterday in an unusual Sunday conference. Key cabinet officers and lesser advisers went over the Truman message with special attention to the high cost of living on the domestic front. SAY MEYERS " USED FRAUD IN CONTRACTS WASHINGTON, . .ov. 17 (UP) Retired Major General Bennett R. Meyers owned an aviation company for which, as Air Force procurement officer, he obtained a million dollars worth of defense program subcontracts, the firm's president testified today. Records of the firm were altered to hide the fact that Meyers was one of the officers, the wit ness told a Senate war investiting subcommittee. B. H. Lamarre, whose wife wa9 secretary to Meyers when he was Air Forces procurement officer at Wright Field, Ohio, told a Senate war investigating subcommittee that he went to work as president of the Aviation Electric Corporation in 1940 to look after Meyers' interest. In so doing, he jumped from a -38 to 40 a week job that he had had with the Douglas Aircraft Corporation. He testified that Meyers had put up all the money Aviation Electric had, and though a dummy, owned 224 of its 230 shares of stock. Plane-maker Lawrence B. Bell testified last week that- on Meyers' recommendation he gave the company $1,055,000 in subcontracts in 1940. CHESTER MILLER RECEIVES HONOR AT BUTLER U. Chester W. Miller, graduate of the Carlisle High School with the class of 1942, now attending Butler University, has been selected for membership in the national freshman fraternity, Phi Eta Sigma, fo r outstanding honors in science, being one' of sixteen eligible students from a class of 1100. Chester is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Garrett H. Miller of Haddon Township. During World War II he served with the medical corps of the 24th Marines, seeing action in the South Pacific.