Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 50, Number 134, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 7 July 1948 — Page 1

WEATHER Z) WARMER THURSDAY Indiana: Fair and warm tonight and Thursday. Thursday slightly (Warmer. ' SULLIVAN COUNTY, CENTER OP . POPULATION VOL. 50-No. 134 UNITED PRESS SERVICE SULLIVAN DAILY TIMES WEDNESDAY, July 7, 194$. INTERNATIONAL PICTURE SERVICE PRICE THREE CENTS

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WASHINGTON, July 7. (UP) Robert N. Denham, National Labor Relations Board. general counsel, said today

he will decide possibly within 24 hours whether to sees a Federal Court injunction to halt the strike of 40,000 soft coal ' miners employed by steel-owned mines. Denham said he hopes to complete today his investigaticn.into charges that the miners are striking for illegal contract demands. "Then, within 24 hours, we should be in a position to de-

cide whether to issue a formal vuuu iui an iiij um.iiuii, lie PITTSBURGH. July 7. (UP) The sympathy strike of commercial miners continued to spread today in the Pittsburgh district, but United Mine Workers officials were urging the men to end their wildcat action. X11C1C VY UO HW Viiunfe captive strike picture, with 40,000 miners still -out in steel companyoperated pits throughout the nation- , . A The Western Pennsylvama Coal I Operators Association reported ohnnt 1d pnmmoiria minors' on strike at 42 mines todav. com- . pared with 10,000 miners on strike at 30 mines yesterday morning. , Three' mines ' reopened this morning, but five which had been open yesterday were closed down, the Association said. John P. Busarello, president of 1 1 1 V- V 111 .111111. II Ullll.1 JVttJU lb. 5 at Pittsburgh, said he was making every effort to send the commercial miners back to the pits. "We got busy early this morning on getting the men back to work in the commercial pits," Busarello said. "Six board members and. several helpers and representatives went into the field to , talk with the men. When the conirftota wrA fiifrnAd ulfVi th nnm.1 "mercia If operators, we were instructed o live up to them. We are carrying out previous instructions." Harry Sutter, executive vicepresident of the Western Penn sylvania Coal Operators. Association, said there had been no re ply to the Association's telegram yesieraay to John L. Lewis, demanding that the commercial miners "honor the contract and w woik immediately. A total of 42,000 miners were idle in Western Pennsylvania this morning: 27,500 at 19' captivemines and 14,500 at the 42 commercial mines. 4-H Club Girls Winners Are Named Eighty-two girls participated in the Sullivan County Judging and Demonstration contest which was held Friday, July 2, at the Sullivan High School. The following are the girls who won placings in the Judging contests: Canning-Janet Bedwell, 1st, Jefferson Twp.; Patty Duffer, 2nd, Fairbanks; and alternate, Sara Sue Phegley, Haddon. Clothing Regina Harris, 1st, Fairbanks; Jacqueline Crew, 2nd, Fairbanks; alternate, Sara Willis, Hamilton. Baking Carolyn Johnson, 1st, Haddon; Rosalie Goodman, 2nd, Hamilton; alternate, 1 Mildred Miller, Hamilton. Food Preparation Mary Frances Allen, 1st. Hamilton: Anna Lee Goble, 2nd, Curry; alternate, Normalee Thompson, Hamilton. 1 The judging contest was won by Doris Ruth Lathrop, Curry Twp., with her demonstration "Get the New Look", and JoAnn Duffer,' Fairbanks Twp., placed alternate with her demonstration "And So To Bed." - lhose girls placing first and second in the judging contest and the first placing girls in I the demonstration contest will compete in the District contest at Terre Haute Friday, July 16. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Burger of Shelburn are the parents of a son, Gary Lee, born July 7th at the Mary Sherman Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. John' Riley of Carlisle, R. 1, announce the birth of a son, John Michael, born July 7th at the Mary Sherman Hospital.

fiice? osei complaint and ask District aaiu Fire Sweeps Oil Tanker I Lake Michigan LUDINGTON, Mich., July 7. (UP)A fire that swept the oil tanker Edgewater in Lake Michi- . ...

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j crewmen, three of them seriously, has been brought under control, the Coast Guard reported. j five oi tne injured men we.re removed from the ship by a Coast Guard PBY amphibian plane from Traverse City, which had been summoned by radio appeals for aid.

The master of the vessel report- Mrs. C. A. McCallister, Cared by radio that one of the seven lisle, Indiana, has just cominjured suffered a leg fracture p!eted a training course at the and three others were hurt, but Methodist caravan training cen-

not seriously. The Edgewater is owned by the Cleveland Tankers Corporation of Cleveland, O., and formerly was operated by the Ford Navigation Company, a subsidiary of the Ford Motor Company of Detroit. Tkn ll, TT rtxvtnrt aAin k o4 j ' u . reported to be standing by to give aid and the Coast Guard cutter Woodbine was dispatched from Grand Haven, Mich., and the cutter ounaew was summoned from Milwaukee. Location of the ship was re ported to be 23 milesout of Ludington. . ' CLEVELAND ti 7 (UP)The Cleveland Tankers Corp., op erator of the burning tanker Edgewater, said today the ship was carrying a cargo of 30,000 barrels of gasoline but that the fire failed to reach the fuel. A company spokesman said the vessel was en route to Bay City, Mich., from Lemont, 111., with a crew of 29 men and officers aboard, Capt. Niels Rosendahl told the home office here by radio-telephone that the fire, of unknown origin broke out in the aft end of the ship and was confined there. The gasoline tanks on the vessel are forward, the spokesman said. Band Concert Program Given The Sullivan High School band, under the direction of Wilfred Perigo, will present another band concert at the City Park Thursday night. The program will start at 8 o'clock and will consist of the following numbers: rV. ni'f r' , , ,.J j wuot, uuaius t r iving .Bombardier Sweet I Love a Parade .- ArJen ine Magic Garden Ki incr I JV w , Cline eolaT fltz -.Wells t Now Is "e Hour Kainan j A Moonlight Melody ....... Nigh Abide With Me . . . . t Z Sun of My Soul .' ' 'Monk National Anthem Key Pvt. Ray Mollet Word has been received here that the body of Pvt. Ray Mollett, was Kined in service on July 28, 1943 in Burma, has been returned to his home in Norris City, Illinois for final burial. The services were held June 13th at the Illinois . city with burial there. At one time the family lived near Pleasantville, where he attended grade school and three years in the Pleasantville High School. He was 32 years old at the time of his death.

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el Funeral services for Pfc. Jesse Wayne Borders will be held Sunday afternoon at the Church f Christ in Dugger at 2:30 o'clock, with Bro. Maurice Clymore officiating. Burial will be in the Dugger Cemetery. His remains arrived in Sullivan today at 4:45 p. m. and were taken to the Aikin Funeral I Home in Dugger and. will be removed to the heme of a sister, Miss Mary Borders, Thursday. Pfc. Borders was a member of 'the 38th Division Reconnaisance Tr00P) medical. cavalry -when he was killed en March 21. 1945 I on Luzon in the Philippines. He was uurn on January , me son of Columbus and Martha Bradley Borders, both deceased. He is survived by three brothers, William (Tony) Borders, Glean Borders,' and Harry Borders, all of Dugger, and five sisters, Mrs. Alice E. -Beck, Miss Mary Borders, and Mrs. Flora E. Turhune. all of Dugger, Mrs. Vianna Wolls of Anderson, and Miss Etta Jane Borders of Wildon. Missouri. The Rexford Ballard Post of the American Legion, rA Dugger, will be in charge of the graveside services ii... r i ii.r.ii' ter at Lycoming College, Williamsport, Pa., preparatory to rendering voluntary service in local Methodist churches during the next seven weeks. ' i Experienced in leadership work among Christian youth, Mrs, McCallister is otoe-of 344 coll oung pIe . and 86 counselors attending one of five caravan training centers located 5n various parts 0f the country. Each caravan team is composed of four young people and ' one adult counselor. They will serve a total of 700 churches in the United States, Cuba and Hawaii. Three teams will serve churches in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Belgium, Sweden, Norway, and North Africa. The Carlisle Methodist Church will be one of the 700 host churches of the caravan teams, July 24-31. CITY COUNCIL MEETS THURSDAY The Sullivan City Council will meet Thursday evening at 7.30 o'clock at the City Hall. Residents cf the city are invited to attend the council meetings. , . Long, Long Time . LAST KISS for a long, long time, probably, is exchanged by Ralph and Katherine Bain at McKeesport, Pa. They were convicted of robberies to finance their honeymoon. She got three to 11 months i she said she helped him to I prove her love and he got 10 to 20 years. ; (latetBiUsssH

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The annual Sullivan B.P.O.E. Golf Tournament will get - junjderway at the Elks Country Club course here this week ed to start Thursday afternoon, July 8th, Elk golfing enthusiasts announced today. , i ! The gold loving cup which the winner is allowed to keep only so long as he retains the championship has been in exist ence for a number of year$. During that time it has graced the mahtle of the "Crip" Smith household the greater portion of the time, however, Norman "Shot" Fisher and C. R. Thudium have also claimed the

championship at various times, today said that his condition Last year, Dr. John Steele was satisfactory, won top honors and will be the Mr. Moore was born in Sullidef ending champion this sea- van and was a life-long resison. The first 16 lowest scoring dent of the city. He was a memElk linkmen will comprise the ber of the Scottish Rite at competition roster for the Evansville, of the Masonic orchampionship flight shooting 18 der at Shelburn, and of the holes. . Elks Ledge and the Eagles

Qualifications will end July. 15th with the low scorers going into the final eliminations to" be played every Sunday afternoon until the 1948 title holder is determined. The cordially Invited public is to witness these matches. . j Tito Fails In Cam Z I LONDON. Julv 7. (UP) MarLONDON, July 7. (UP) Mar shal Tito's campaign to woo the Kremlin while continuing to denounce the Cominform in the bitterest terms appeared. ; today to have failed. Tito, head of the Yugoslav Communist party, has been rebuffed by the Soviet Union's Communist party, of which ' Premier Josef Stalin is the head. r ' The Yugoslav CommuhTst'"Vr ty's fifth congress is scheduled for July 21 in Belgrade. After the Cominform's excommunication of Yugoslavia and Tito, the Yugoslavs sent invitations to all Communist parties of Eastern Europe to attend the congress. An emphatic no was issued by the Kremlin last night. The Moscow radio announced that the central committee of the Soviet Communist party rejected the invitation because of Yugoslavia's refusal to attend the recent Cominform meeting which "thus placed the Yugoslav Communist party outside the family of Communist parties." Other Eastern European parties were exnected to follow, in the the foUow8 0continued defiance fcy TUo tQ fte Cominform charg. es flcwery praise 0f the Soviet Union and efforts to place the i blame for Yugoslavia's present plight upon Communist leaders of other Eastern European countries, especially Bulgaria, Albania and Hungary. County Youths Enlist In Navy Four Sullivan County youths, one from Sullivan and three from Merom,' have enlisted in the United States Navy, a report from the Terre Haute recruiting station shows. The four are Arnold Chambers, age 17, Sullivan, R. 5; and Ronald E. Rinard, age 18, Ed-, ward Renaker. age 18, and Ro bert D. Turpen, age 18, all of Merom. The latter three were members of the Merom High School basktball team last winter. . The youths were sent to the Great Lakes Navbl Training Center for their recruit training. Rinard, Renaker and Turpen will be sent to aviation fundamental school after their training at Great Lakes. THREE KILLED NEAR CAYUGA CAYUGA, Ind., July 7 (UP) Indiana State Police reported today that a man, his wife and their four-year-old niece, all of uanvuie, ill., were killed in a rairoad crossing accident Cayuga last night. Police near listed the victims as Wilbur Porter, age 38, his wife, Florence, age ( 35t and their niece, Carol Jean 'Porter, all of Danville, R. 4.

David W.Moore Dies Of injuries In Slate Fall

David (Bill) Moore, age 44, of Sullivan, died at 11:30 o'clock this morning at the. Mary Sherman Hospital of injuries he received on June 22 in a slate fall at the Regent mine east of the city. In the fall, he suffered a broken pelvis and back injuries. Clarence Gose, age 61, of Dugger, who was injured in the same accident at the mine, is still a patient in the Mary Sherman Hospital, and attendants oa& n ui"van He1 is survived by the wife, Abigail; two sons Wilson Moore ana uon jvioore, Dotn oi sumvan; the mother, Mrs. Creacy Norris of Sullivan; a grandmother; and a sister, Mrs. Ruth .Gregg of Madisonville, Ind. J The body was taken to the iBillman Funeral Home, where services will be held at 2 o'clock I Friday afternoon. Burial will ibe in Center Ridge Cemetery. Kai Kates man, , Expert Charges WASHINGTON, July 7. (UP) A . government transportation expert said today that railroads succeeded in "gouging" about $1000,000,000 from the government in shipments to the West Coast during the war. Th6 cha was made by Thornas F. Proctor in a statement pre sented to a House executive expendiutres subcommittee. Proctor is a transportation analyst for the Postoffice Department and worked in a similar capacity during the war for the Army Transportation Corps. Proctor, in his formal statement, did not analyze the alleged "gouge." He said an investigation once was started by the Interstate Commerce Commission. "But," Proctor said, "the Commission dropped the investigation after the railroads had sold a bill of goods to their former and future employes in the Army and Navy traffic sections. "The Commission should be investigated "and probably abolished for dropping this one case." Proctor said the Army and Navy transportation sections were

manned by furiougnea rauroaa But he tnougnt it would have employes. Most of them returned,,,, . t d ith changing the

to the railroads after the war, he said. v The House subcommittee is investigating charges that the government paid unreasonable rates for railroad transportation during and after the war. Mrs. Mattie Andis Dies Tuesday Mrs. Mattie Jane Andis, age I

76 of Pleasantville, died at aevnf Minneapolis, a spokesman for

home Tuesday around noon. She; had been seriously ill for four weeks. I Surviving are the husband, Jacob; three sons, Floyd of New Castle, Indiana, Willard of Carlisle. R. 2. and Ralph of Indianapolis; eleven grandchildren; two half-brothers, Orville Peden of South Bend, and Barney Peden of Sandborn, and a half-sister, Mrs. Nina Squires of Sandborn. The body was removed to the residence this afternoon from the Newkirk Funeral Home. Funeral services will be conducted Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Pleasantville Methodist Church with the Rev. Harry Karns officiating. Burial will be made in the Pleasantville Cemetery. TOBIN REFUSES DEMO INVITATION INDIANAPOLIS, July 7. (UP) President Daniel J. robin of the AFL Teamsters Union turned down an invitation today to ad - , dress the Democratic national

convention and said his union mitted to Spencer Hospital, would stay "absolutely neutral" Meadville, where their, condfluntil after the convention. ticn was reported good.

Wholesale Food Prices Drop Slightly NEW YORK, July 7 (UP)

.Wholesale food prices, as reflec ted by the Dun & Bradstreet index, in the week ended yesterday dropped slightly for the third consecutive week, the agency announced today. Representing the sum total of the price per pound of 31 foods, the index this week declined to ! $7.12 from $7.14 last week. The price was $6.41 a year ago. Foods declining included flour, wheat, corn, rye, oats, barley, beef, hams, cottonseed oil and potatoes. Frices for jellies, cheese, cocoa, steers and hogs advanced, while sugar, coifte, prunes, milk, lambs, butter and raisins were unchanged. Democratic Platform May Cause Trouble By Lyle C. Wilson United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, July 7. (UP) New Dealers and Democrats leading the stop-Truman movement headed toward another smash-up today in dispute over the party's presidential campaign platform. They have no mutually acceptable candidate now for the Democratic Presidential nomination and they bitterly disagree on the issue of civil rights for Negroes. Some of the wisest heads in the party predict President Truman's nomination on the first ballot next week when the party meets in Philadelphia. Among these are James A. Farley who master1 minded the late FDR's early tri umphs and Boss E. H. Crump of Memphis, Tenn. But other party veterans and machine bosses are so far out in their opposition against Mr. Truman's nomination that they cannot retreat. Among them is Frank Hague, the New Jersey Democratic boss. Hague and many other stopTruman leaders are keeping the draft-Ike movement alive but without much hope of getting the General. His Monday statement said he "could not accept nomination for any public office." Men who know Ike best here say that is that. They advise anti-Truman Democrats to look for some other candidate. Flans Resolution. Another draft-Ike Democrat who is refusing to give up is Sen. Olin D. Johnston, D., S. C. He said he is thinking of placing before the Democratic national committee on Saturday a resolution calling on Mr. Truman to step aside for the good of the party. Johnston declined to predict Eisenhower would fiive in to a draft if Mr Truman steps aside General's attitude. Sen. Claude Pepper, D., Fla., urged Democratic leaders to offer the Presidential nomination to Eisenhower on a strictly nonpolitical basis. The General, he said, "cannot refuse a truly national draft" that would give him a chance to form a' bi-partisan "coalition government" to prevent World War III. Eisenhower's statement splintered the stop-Truman movement and there is another shock corng Mayor Hubert H. Humphrey the New Deal organization known as Americans for Democratic Ac tion, has lined up 50 prominent Democrats and New Dealers for, a drive to force Mr. Truman s cjvij rights program into the Presiontini namnaisn Dlatform. The President presented the plan to Congress last February, proposing legislation to outlaw the poll tax, lynching, segregation and discrimination on racial or religious grounds. BRAZIL KILLED MAN ' IN WRECK MEADVILLE, Pa., July 7 (UP) Sylvester W. McDonald, of Brazil, Ind., general manager of the G. C. Murphy stores from Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan, was killed yesterday in an automobile accident one and one-half miles south of Cochranton, Pa. His wife, Evelyn, age 34, suffered cuts of tne - rieht eve. a bruised right knee. and body injuries, and his son, rjaniei age 4, suffered a bruisrjght eye. They were ad-

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LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., July 7. (UP) The representative of the Arab higher committee of. Palestine walked out cf the United Nations Security Council session on Palestine today. Jamal El Husseini left the council chamber when a Soviet maneuver to have the Jewish representative referred to as the "representative of the state of Israel" was upheld by a Council vote. "We can't assist in these deliberations as long as - this term is used by the chair," Husseini said as he took his walk.

New Yorker Will Nominate Ike At Convention NEW YORK, July 7 (UP) James A. Roe, one of the leaders of the New York delegation, said today he would formally offer Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's name tor the Democratic Presidential nomination at the national convention in Philadelphia next week. The Queens County Democratic leader said, "General Eisenhower was a great leader in war and he will be a great leader in peace." CHICAGO, July 7 (UP) The Democratic Chicago Sun-Times called upon President Truman today to take the "unprecedented" step of asking Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower to accept the Democratic nomination for President. In an editorial in its morning edition, the paper said that Eisenhower's recent statement, in which he said he . could not enter partisan politics, "does not, however, close the door on the right of the American people to draft him for the Presidency, if they really want him." "Ike does not have to become a Democrat to accept the nomination," the paper said. "He could lun as an American, appealing to all voters in all parties." The Sun-Times is published by Marshall Field. R. J. Finnegan is executive vice president and editor. Both are influential Democrats. Today's editorial was the papei's first stand on a Presidential candidate for the party in the coming elecion. "Eisenhower does not want to campaign as a political partisan," the paper said. "We believe that's the key to his reluctance to accept nomination." But, the editorial said, George Washington set a precedent for the nomination and election of a "people's choice," without a campaign. Cherry Queen Entry IOVELY Joann England, 20, will , compete with candidates from 24 1 northern Michigan communities at Traverse City, Mich., for title of National Cherry Festival queen July 8-9. The Traverse City beauty la a former Denison university coed. (International)

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.The session was snauw mediately when Dmitri Manuilski, Soviet Ukrainian delegate who is Council president for July, invited the "interested parties" to the Council table. In the meetings since May 15 when Israel was proclaimed ... a Jewish state, the Jewish representative had been referreel to by the Council president as the "representative of the Jewish Agency." CAIRO, July 7. (UP) Time was running out on the Palestine truce today, but some hope was seen that an extension of the United Nations cease-fire in the Holy Land may still be possible. Conflicting reports came from the capitals concerned as Count Folke Bernadotte of Sweden, UN mediator, continued to shuttle between Arab and Jewish leaders seeking some solution in the waning hours before the truce ends at 2 a.m. EDT Friday. Bernadotte conferred for 80 minutes with the Arab League's liaison committee here, and then flew to Tel Aviv, capital of the Jewish state of Israel. He . announced before his departure that the Arab reply to his proposals for extension of the truce and for demilitarization of Jerusalem and Haifa will be released at Rhodes at noon GMTj.omorrow (8 a. m. EDT). Fourteen Drown In Indiana In Last Four Days - INDIANAPOLIS, July 7 (UP) Fourteen persons have died in drowning accidents in Indiana within the last four days, State Police reported today. Ten drownings were recorded over the three-day July 4 holiday weekend and four more persons were drowned in separate accidents over the state yesterday. ; Five-year-old George Palmer, son cf Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Palmer, cf Gi cvertown, fell from a boat chained to a pier in Koontz Lake last night and was drowned in 10' feet of water. The parents said the boy was playing in ihe boat and fell overboard. Harelil Lee Wilson, age 18. of New Harmony, was drowned yesterday while swimming in the Wabash River. The victim's father, Andrew Wilson, said the youth apparently became exhausted and was drowned before he could reach shore. The body of Harold Huddleston, age 15, of Terre Haute, was recovered from Honey Creek 4 miles southwest of Terre Haute shortly before midnight last night. He was drowned while swimming in the stream yesterday afternoon. David N. Jenkins, age 76, Indianapolis, was drowned in White River last night. Police fcainr! his cloihing and cane on the liver bai.k near Indianapolis after ho was reported missing from heme. His body was found in about eight feet of water. . , HOSPITAL NOTES . ' Admitted July 6: Mrs. Martha Conner of East Harris Street; Roy Laymen of Hymera; Mrs, Eva Freeze of Lewis. Admitted July 7: Robert Walker of East Giles Street; Karen Sue Moore of South McCammor Street. Dismissed July 6: Mrs. James Edmonson and daughter of Hymera; Mrs. C. Morrison and daughter of Paxton.