Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 49, Number 237, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 27 November 1947 — Page 1

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VOL. XLIX No. 237 aWoTsays control is necessary WASHINGTON, Nov. 27. (U.R) Secretary jot Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson told Congress yesterday that the "club-in-the-close price control and rationing power asked by President Truman would not be used before Spring at the earliest. And they might not be invoked at all,. Anderson said, if the food saving drive is successful and the Spring food crop is good. But Anderson 'emphasized that the power should be granted now on a stand-by basis. He argued that such measures are "good insurance" against skyrocketing prices. Anderson and Secretary of Commerce W. Averill Harriman urged prompt action on various phases of Mr. Truman's ten-point anti-inflation program in appearances before two Congressional committees. POSTPONE VOTE ON PARTITIONIN ASSEMBLY UNITED NATIONS HALL, FLUSHING, N. Y., Nov.; 27 (UP) Proposals to partition Palestine into Arab and Jewish states ran into fresh opposition in the United Nations General Assembly and in desperation, the backers of partition persuaded the Assembly to postpone a final vote until Friday. ' Delegates supporting partition became alarmed when Haiti, Greece, and the Philippines made surprise announcements that they would vote against the proposal. This was offset by the change by the Netherlands, Belgium and New Zealand. The situation changed hourly during the day but after furious corridor, intrigues, partition did not have thetwo-thirds majority necessary to win. Twenty-eight nations have announced that they will support partition while fifteen delegates still are voting against partition. rt miM in - i TiSCHOLARSHIP TESTS IN FEB. LAFAYETTE, Ind., Nov. 27 J-"lans are now being made for the testing program to select from Hoosiejr high schools the state scholarship appointees for the 19- , 48-49 academic, school year. Each of the four state institutions, Purdue University, Ball State Teachers College Indiana State Teachers College and Indiana University has the privilege of appointing two scholarship student's from each county to this program. This year material for the tests will be distributed by Purdue Unconcerning the program will go soon to every high school principal and superintendent in the state. Tests will be given from February 9 to 12 in the high schools to students who plan toenter college in September, 1948. A state scholarship at any one of the institutions entitles the holder to exemption from contingent fees which amount to about $30 per semester, the exact amount varying slightly among the four institutions. Award of the scholarship entitles the, student to exemption from these fees for the first year and for succeeding years, provided a satisfactory record is maintained. Students who wish to take the 'Scholarship tests should obtain the "necessary information from thsir own high school principal.

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NO PAPER ROUTE. MONOTONY, SAYS LOCAL CARRIER Bill Gott, Iwho delivers the Times each evening, wrote this article about his own paper route1. Bill, son of Mr. and .Mrs. Clint Gott, is a sophomore at Sullivan High School. Paper routes are said to be monotonous, -but one of the Times carriers has found an exception to that saying. Bill Gott, who has next to the largest Times route-in townvsaid, "There is one exception." A small black bulldog named Sugar brightens the path of this paper boy. Sugar comes out when 'she knows he is coming to eet the paper. The dog is welMrained and very smart. She is four years old and is owned by Mr. and Mrs. Ro.oksberry, of 427 ( South Stratton Street. . ; The Rooksberrys came in possession of the dog when their son, I Bill, went to the United States 'Navy. Their son and his wife now reside in Peoria, 111. The dog is well-liked by all Iwho have come in contact with her. , : This just goes to show, that paper route monotony is broken now and then. McKINLEY GETS j CLARINET BACK ' Ward McKinley 'got his clarinet," back this week. Ward is a member of the Elks band, and when an out-of-town dance band played for an Elks dance a year ag.o, one of the players in the band took Ward's clarinet with him when he left town. This week, the clarinet, all shined up, and completely overhauled, was received at the Elks Club. The fellow that took it; said that his conscience had been bothering him, and so he was returning the instrument. Ward says- it is in better shape n.ow than when it was stolen. , HOLLY TREE BEARING IN CARLISLE It may be winter out,; "',,hiit ., a holly tree in Callisleldoes'ht know it. It is beaingl tiow A. sprig of the tree is! injthfe K. B. Smith Jewelry Storfe. TJhe free'is twenty-five years old,; and" it is one of the few trefes o'Fits kind in this part of the! country-For five years after it was plattt'edil had to be covered) .with straw and a barrel to poteeFltfom; the winter. The trees must grow in pairs too. loan Got Contract' ROBERT CUSE, president of Vima-j lert, Ltd., Jersey Cits, N. J.n tells the Senate war investigating! committee that he tried "many, times to get AAF contracts, but; had no success until two weeks after he madS a $25,000 loan to Maj. Gen. Bennett E. Meyers.", Cuse alledgea Meyers used loan to promote $4,000,000 deal in gov-, ernment bonda and haa repaid only $3,000, (International

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GOVERNMENT RESTS GUN RUNNING CASE AUGUSTA, "Ga., Nov. 27. (UP The government yesterday introduced testimony in a gunrunning trial that a plot had ex

isted to overthrow the Venezuelan government with the co-operation of the Dominican consulate, Colombian officials and "some good friends in the Department of State." Federal Agent John Calvin Rice read a statement attributed to Defendant Edward Browder, Jr giving details of the alleged plot. It was admitted as evidence over the strenuous objections of the defense. With the reading of the statement, the government rested its case against four men charged with stealing aerial machine guns from a warehouse of surplus armament with the intention of smuggling them to' the revolu tionists. United States District Judge Frank Scarlett then adjourned the court until Monday when he will charge the jury. WILL ELECT COMMUNITY COMMITTEEMEN At the last session of Congress a commitment was made to finance a 1948 program. It is the responsibility of the farmers to elect committeemen to administer this program. A farmer is eligible to vote in tne election if he is an owner, operator, tenant, or sharecropper ' on a farm on which AAA pay- . ments, either in the form of cash, services, or conservation mater ials have been made or may be made under the 1947 AAA Program, Sugar Program, or Crop Insurance Program. j ,'.. It is important to the farmer "and to the future of farm programs that he attend the election ..meeting in his community and vote for the men whom he thinks I will dp the best job. I ji Farmers are urged to attend these ' meetings -'as ai' minutes of the meeting is kept and forwarded "to the'- State 'Office.. rA good I turnout will show that farmers are still interested in a future! farm program and the welfare of farmers in genera"!. A county committee will bej present at all the meetings to explain participation in the 1948 . program and to answer any ques tions a farmer might want to ask i regarding the different phases of the farm program. Election meetings are scheduled as follows: Cass Township Dugger High School, Monday, Dec. 1, 7:30 p. m. Curry Township Township House, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 7:30 p. m. Fairbanks Township Township Fire House, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 7:30 p. m. Gill Township New Lebanon School House, Monday, Dec. 1, 7.30 p. m. Haddon Township Carlisle High School, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 7:30 p. m. Hamilton Township Court House AAA Office, Thursday, Dec. 4, 7:30 p. m.' Jackson Township Hymera School House, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 7:30 p. m. Jefferson Township Pleasantville School House, Monday, Dec. 1, 7:30 p. m, . Turman Township Graysville School House, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 7:30 p. m. PLAN PIANO RECITAL FOR SUNDAY The second piano recital of the season at the Lillian Dale Scott Music Hall, North Court Street, will be presented on Sunday, Nov. 30th at 3 p. m. The program will consist i of twenty-seven selections, both duets and solo numbers. '

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Ira (Buddy) Davenport (left, top), son of Mjrs. Velma Davenport of Linton, a former resident of '.Sullivan, and Jack Wagner (right, top), the son of Deputy Sheriff Jand Mrs. Hubert Wagner, were among the top seven in a class ;at Great Lakes, 111. Both boys are ablebodied seamen. '' I ; 4. : -, , . Thanksgiving Dinner Is . A Meal Of Gratitude

What does Thanksgiving dinner have to do with' Thanksgiving? , According to the Encyclopaedia Britawniea, meals have heen regarded as thank-offerings since ancient times. "It is probable that among Christians, as among Jews, every meal, and especially every social meal, was regarded as being in some sense a thank-offering", the Britannica states, The words "thanksgiving",' "blessing" and "offering" were used more or less interchangeably, the Britannica points out. A Talmudic rule cautions, "A man shall not taste anything before blessing it", and St. Paul explains, "He that eateth, eateth unto the Lord, for he giveth God thanks." Thanksgiving Day's traditional turkey played a part in Indian prayer offerings more than a thousand years ago, the Britannica reveals. Certain American Indian tribes kept turkeys in captivity not for food, but for their feathers, which were plucked from the living bird and burned in prayer offerings to appease the gods. In the early Christian church, one aspect of thanksgiving was the offering of the fruits of the earth to God to show gratitude 2or creaion, preservation or redemption, acording to the Britannica. Appropriately, therefore, it was following their first harvest in 1621 that the Pilgrims set apart a

A SONG OF THANKSGIVING By CLARENCE IIAWKES ' The Blind Poet of Hadley, Mass. Written for United Press There's a song of deeo thanksgiving Rising in our land today; Once again, we all are living In the old accustomed way. , ( Prais,-ng God beneath the steeple Of the Church upon the hill, Just a radiant, happy people, Begging hatred to be still. Pleading that our peace sublime Will last until the end of time. i But we'll not forget those others, Who are coming home today : They were sweethearts, sons and brothers, What a price they had to pay! . Coming home across the ocenn . To the land they fought to save, Without a thrill or an emotion To a soldier'slowly grave. Our hearts are full, our cheeks are wet; God help us never to forget ! To the needy we are faithful, Giving of our gold and grain ; Though some pleading is untruthful, Yet we give ?nd give again. Give to those who foueht beside us, Give to enemies of old. Feed the race, whHe'er betide us, From our grainfields and our gold. God grant mankind may rise again To toil and strive and live like men. '

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Great Lakes day for thanksgiving at Plymouth. ,The Massachusetts Bay Colony held its first observance in 1630. Connecticut as early as 1639, and !the Dutch 1n New Netherlands in 1644. "During the Revolutionary War the Continental congress appointed one .or more thanksgiving days i each year, except in 1777," the I Britannica relates. "President Washington appointed a day of thanksgiving (Thursday, November 26) in 1789, and appointed another in response to resolutions of congress, set apart a day for thanksgiving at the close of the War of 1812. By 1858 proclamations appointing a day of thanksgiving were issued by the goverj nors of 25 states and two territories." At present Thanksgiving Day is annually set by proclamation of ; the president and of the governors ,of the various states, and, the Britannica notes, is observed with religious services and as an occasion for family reunions. MOVES TO SULLIVAN FROM NEWCASTLE Mr. and Mrs. Harmon Hoy and family of Newcastle, Indiana will move to Sullivan this week-end. Mr. Hoy has been employed for about a month at the K. B. Smith Jewelry Store. They will reside at 562 South Court Street.

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SHOW PROMISES TO BE VARIED About twenty-one entries have been received for the Junior Chamber of Commerce countywide talent show that will be given in the Community Gym on Saturday night, O. K. Anderson, chairman for the show said today. Mr. Anderson said that the sntries are varied and that the shoW will be interesting to watch. With each act running four minutes, the complete show will last approximately two hours. All the county schools entered the show except Pleasantville, Merom, Carlisle, and Hymera, Mr. Anderson explained. Those that did enter have said that their acts will include vocal solos, playlets, stunts, baton twirling, minstrels, magicians, and readings. The show is being sponsored by the Junior Chamber of Commerce to raise funds ifor their community activities. Tickets for the show may be obtained from any member of the Jaycees, or from students of the schools that entered the contests. Tickets will also be available at the Gym on Saturday night. . The . show starts at 7:30 p. .nw. . . . . , .,,, ,; FRENCH RAIL STRIKE IS NOT EFFECTIVE PARIS, Nov. 27 (UP) Police beat back demonstrators in Lyon yesterday with tear gas and angry passengers and nonstrickers battled railroad pickets with fists in the Paris area amid reported Communist plans to use the labor unrest as a springboard to sieze power. The rail walkout was only about 50 per cent effective in Paris and other cities as workers Jtept traffic moving indefiance of the strike order by the eration of labor. Premier Robert Schuman, in effort to widen the rift between the justified and the political strikers, promised an immediate wage increased in the sweeping cost of living allowances. He appealed to 1,500,000 idle workers to return to their jobs tomorrow and warned that the government' would use every means in its power to seek out labor agitators. Replace Coins TO REMEDY extreme shortage of small coins in Germany, the French military government and finance ministry of South Wuert-temberg-Hohenzollern r e 1 e a s e a these 5, 10 and 20-pfennig banknotes in the total amount of $550,000, (International)

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GEORGE ENNIS DIES WEDNESDAY George W. Ennis, age 80, died at six o'clock Wednesday morning at the home of his brother-in-law, James Shake, south 'Of Westphalia. Mr. Ennis, who was formerly associated with the Ennis-McKn Clinic in Vincennes had been ill for a week. His sole survivor is a nephew, Ivory. Seichting, of Martinsville. His wife, Martha Ann, preceded him in death in 1941. The body was taken to the Newkirk Funeral Home in Pleas-" antville, where it will lie in state. Funeral services will be held Friday morning at 11 o'clock at the Funeral Home. Burial will be in the Indian Prairie Cemetery. STRIKE CUTS FINLAND OFF FROM WORLD STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Nov. 27. (UP Finland was all but isolated from the rest of the world by a strike of some 70,000 to 80,000 of its civil servants. Passenger boat service, airline travel, "train service; and communications were silenced by a strike of telephone, telegraph and radio operators. Postoff ice workers also walked' out in a strike for higher wages. Grey-haired professors picketed the University of Helsinki and practically all schools were closed. i The. strike began yesterday despite warnings by Prime Minister Pekkals that all the strikers would be fired. Union spokesmen said they could not be intimidat

ed and all walked out again today The school has decided that bein all but government offices and cause of the demand for reserve

thirteen trade unions. terre haute vet offices are; combined .Terre Haute Veterans Administration training and contact offices are now combined in a new location at 120 South 7th St., on the second floor of' the RadLo Center Building. This new office is open from 8 a. m. to 4:30 p. m., Monday through Friday. Wallace B. Blue, Officer-in-Charge of the new office, explained the operation of the two sections in one location enables veterans to get answers to their education and training problems, and assistance on all other veteran's benefits in one visit. VA training and training facilities officers are available to discuss training matters with veterans in all types of training supervised by the Veterans Administration. Contact representatives are available to assist veterans and their dependents on all matters concerning Federal and State benefits for veterans. Complete information regarding entitlement to benefits is available at the VA office in Terre Haute. Telephone number is Crawford 4027. When visiting this office, claimants should bring all records of service and any communications received from the Veterans Administration, in order that all necessary information regarding their claims will be available. MEYERS GRAND JURY ADJOURNED WASHINGTON, Nov. 27. (U.R) Grand jury action on perjury indictments against retired Major j General Bennett E. Meyers was postponed yesterday until Mjonday, awaiting a roundup of key witnesses accusing him of lying to the United States Senate about his secret war-time operations. United States Attorney George M. Fay refused to name the witnesses he will call next week, but it is believed that nationally known figures such as General H. H. Arnold and West Coast Millionaire Howard Hughes might be sum- ! moned. .

WEATHER "LIGHT SNOW THURSDAY Indiana: Partly cloudy tonight; mostly cloudy with light snow Thursday. Little change in temperatures.

RUSS ACCUSED BY MARSHALL AT PARLEY V LONDON, Nov. 27 (UP) Secretary of State George C; Marshall sharply rebuked Russia's Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov for attributing "evil motives which are figments of propaganda to the United States and its western allies." Addressing the second meeting of the Big Four Foreign Ministers Conference, Molotov demanded the immediate creation of a "democratic" government for all Germany and accused the Western Powers of seeking to dominate Europe. "Certain countries are striving for an imperialistic peace, which means the domination of these governments over all others, and an imperialistic peace means' the division into nations who are slaves and those vho are mas ters and in this are the seeds of conflict and it could turn into the third world war." ARROW CAGE SEASON TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY f . Season .tickets .for reserved seats for home games to be played by the Sullivan Golden Arrows will go on sale at the Community gym on Friday, Nov. 28, from 2 p. m. until 5 p. m., Lee French, faculty manager, said today, The Arrows will be playing eight home games this season, with the price of the season tickets the same as they were last year for seven home games. seats at the home games that all the .opera seats on the north side and on the south side, as well as the single rows on the east side of the gym will be sold to reserve season ticket buyers. Other season tickets for the Arrow home games may be purchased ffom any student, or from the faculty manager. General admission tickets for the games will also be on sale before each home game at the ticket office in the Community gym. EXPERTS DIFFER, SOME SAY LOTS, SOME SAY LESS INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Nov. 27 It's the old story. Ask an expert how the game is this year and he will say "spotty." Ask a hunter selected at random and he will say "lots of rabbits." Ask another hunter in the next field and he will say "no rabbits." The .bird hunters are aqually divided; some say one thing, some say another. Indiana Department of Conservation officials, who should know if anyone does, say both rabbits and quail are available in greater numbers than in 1946, but they point out the actual statistics will not be presented until Pittman-Robertson field men have finished their annual count of the "game harvest." As usual, the number one upland game ' bird in Indiana this year is the bobwhite quail. The open season ends on December 20. The rabbit season continues until January 10. There is no Pen season on iyear" pheasants this SCOTT CITY CHURCH PLANS REVIVAL The Pilgrim Holiness Church at Scott City is planning a series of revival meetings starting on Sunday, Nov. 30, and continuing for two weeks. The Rev. Melvin Snyder of Terre Haute, will be the speaker, and Miss Ada M. Waddell of Tipton, Indiana, will be in charge of the meeting. The church is located five miles northwest of Shelburn on Road i48. '