Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 50, Number 146, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 23 July 1948 — Page 1

WEATHER FAIR SATURDAY Indiana: Clearing and cooler U night. Fair and pleasant Saturda; fair and somewhat warmer Sur day. SULLIVAN COUNTY. . CENTER OF 1 POPULATION PRICE THREE CENT VOL. 50 No. 146 UNITED PRESS SERVICE SULLIVAN DAILY TIMES FRIDAY, JULY 23. 1948. INTERNATIONAL PICTURE SERVICE

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WASHINGTON, July 23. (UP) The House Foreign Affairs committee was told today that this country views with extreme reserve the terms advanced by Soviet Marshal V. D. Sokclovsky for lifting the Berlin blockade. In an exclusive interview with United Press, Sokolovsky said last night night that Russia is prepared to lift the siege cf Berlin if Russians are permitted free access to Western Germany. Authoritative Capital sources said the Marshal's statement was discussed at length at a secret committee session this morning at which Gen. Lucius D. Clay reported on the Berlin situation.

Clay, U. S. military commander in Berlin, is here for a brief trip. Committee members were instructed not to divulge Clay's remarks but one person present acr knowledged that the Sokolovsky interview was thoroughly discussed at the session. Asked if it would be correct to say the committee was warned "not to put too much stock in what Sokolovsky said," this source said; "That would be about right." It apparently was pointed out to the committee that the Mar shal's statement seemed to overlook the obvious fact that American access to Berlin across the Soviet occupation zone of Germany is guaranteed by four pow er agreement. It is the United States view that there is no con-

nection between Soviet violation popular vote cast were: Rhode of this pledge and American in- Island 58.7; Arizona 59; Utah sistence that Russians entering 60.5; California 56.5, Washingour occupation zone be equipped ton 57.4. with the customary credentials. . With Henry A. Wallace on the ballot in California and By John B. McDermott Washington Gov. Thomas E. United Press Staff Correspondent Dewey probably will need only World Copyright 1948 By The fh"ldMhls wn thls ,vea to United Press defeat Mr Truman m those states. Both have large left BERLIN, July 23. (UP) The wing blocs. American military government taid today that U. S. travel re- ou J TBack Tman strirtions which Marshal Vassilv Rhode Island Arizona and

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only after the Soviets had taken ne 8els on lneir Dauolssimilar action against the Ameri- generally are accounted the cans surest Democratic states outside the South in this election year. Sokolovsky agreed in an infor- Polls and political observers mal United Press interview last agree that Wallace will get the night that the Soviet highway bulk of his support from voters blockade would be 'lifted if the who backed Mr. Roosevelt four Americans opened thejr zone to years ago. That will make it the Russians. I tough for Mr. Truman in every . . 'state where Wallace is on the

V i ; 7 ..I action to Sokolovsky's comment came from Major Gen. George P.

Hays, deputy military governor The OMo Supreme Court and commandant in the absence fuled yesterday that Wallace in Washington of Gen. Lucius D. can g0 on the November elec. Clay. Hays was described as tion ballot Jn that stat.e,, Legal "completely surprised by Sokol- action ig pending to get him on ovsky's charge that the Berlin the minois faallot too blockade resulted from U. S. visa ( restrictions. Illinois has 29 electoral votes, Ohio 26. Mr. Roosevelt barely Some informed American quar- carried iuinois four years ago ters regarded Sokolovsky's offer with 51 7 per cent of the major as a possible face-saving formula party yote cast Dewey won which might clear the way for a with 5Q 7 per cent with Wal. new meeting of the Big Four lace on thog8 state baUotSf Mr. Council of Foreign Ministers. Truman wouW be pretty sure For the first time Sokolovsky to lose their electoral votes, spoke to a Western correspondent Wallace is safely aboard the about the Berlin crisis in an in- ballot in about 40 states, acterview at a supper party at the cording to his campaign manPolish mission headquarters cele- agers, although they do not brating a Polish national holiday. come up with a definite list of

Jennerites Asked To Resign Jobs INDIANAPOLIS, July 23. (U.R)' Two employes of the Indiana State Alcoholic Beverage Commission today protested a request by ABC Chairman Lefler Anderson that they resign in what political observers termed a new phase of a political shakeup to get rid of supporters of Sen. William E. Jenner. Gerald w. unrn, nearing juage of the Commission, and Charles C. Meischke, Marion County ABC investigator, were asked to resign yesterday. Anderson saia uovernor Gates had ordered the resignations. Gates, however, denied the order. "That is absolutely untrue," Gates was quoted as saying. The governor said he would investigate the situation "immediately." Ohm said he refused to resign but was told his "resigation" would take effect Aug. 14. Meische said he would submit his resignation "within a few days in accordance with Governor Gates' wishes." Ohm and Meischke are both admitted members of a faction of the state Republican party that supported Jenner for governor at the recent GOP state convention.

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Republicans See Vote Shift In Fall Election WASHINGTON, July 23 (UP) Republican campaign strategists figure a voting shift of five per cent ol this year's election would freeze President Truman out of all but three states cutsid the South. Franklin D. Roosevelt carried only five states in 1944 by a margin of more than five per cent. Those states and Roosevelt's percentage of Mr. the - - - . ir ir - . . ballot, but especially difficult in the big industrial states with lots of electoral votes. them. It is a fact, however, that he is on the ballot in New York, , Pennsylvania and California which cast an aggregate of 105 I of the 531 votes in the electoral I college. Terracing Contest Is Next Thursday It was announced today by the County Extension Office that the State Terracing Contest will be held on the Larkin Hannah farm in Morgan County, Thursday. July 29. This contest wiI1 be different from last year due to tne fact that all contestants win be using regular mold board type plow. Carl Wampler, Sullivan, R. 2, will be the contestant from this county. Mr. Wampler placed in the first half of the group in the contest held in Knox Coun - ty last year. All Sullivan County farmers interested in attending this contest are invited to come to the Hannah farm next Thursday. The contest is being spon sored by the Indianapolis News and the State Soil Conservation committee. It will beein at 10:30 (DST). The farm is located on State Road' 142 about four miles east of Eminence or about eight I miles northwest of Martinsville.

Ex-OPA Head To Talk Prices To Special Session WASHINGTON, July 23 (U.R) President Truman tdaj Drought Paul A. Porter, former price administrator, back into the r.dminisration to prepare an explanation of the anti-inflation program to present to Congressional committees of the special session.

Porter will serve as a non-paid special assistant to the President. The White House said his duty will be "to coordinate the information that may be presented to the appropriate Congressional committees if and when hearings are held on the President's proposed anti-inflation legislation." The White House said Porter will appear personally before committees if he is called. Porter attended the cabinet meeting this morning when the President outlined his special session program. The appointment strengthened reports from administration sources that Mr. Truman will seek some form of price control from the special session. Porter, according to Presiden tial Secretary Charles G. Ross, will: "Assist in gathering informa tion for the committees and co ordinate the presentation of tes timony in sustaining the proposed legislation." Porter first served with the OPA as deputy administrator in charge of rent control. He later was counsel for the office of economic stabilization, chairman of the Federal Communications i Commission and the last price administrator. Ernmer! Dissents On Dual Jobholding INDIANAPOLIS, Jufy 23. (U.R) Indiana Supreme Court col leagues Of Judge Jamas Emmert todav studied Emmert's dissenting opinion regarding a backpay dispute between four state officials

and State Auditor A. V. Burch. j companies operators oi me Emmert made public his opinion 'captive mines that Lewis cornlate yesterday, disagreeing with mitted an unfair labor practice fellow judges on the issue The bv trvmg to force em to sign high court ruled recently that thea contract with an illegal union four members of the state legisla-, shP Provision, ture who also held other state' Thev said that under the jobs should not be paid back sal- j Taft-Hartley act, Lewis had no aries they claimed. I "8h to ask ra union shop

Sen. Clyde Black, secretary of the Indiana Flood Control and Water Resources Commission; Rep. Elmer C. Weller, Public Service Commission .official; Rep. Charles T. Miser, State Highway Department maintenance superin tendent, and Rep. Beecher Conrad, state barber inspector, were forced to resign their positions. They claimed back wages amounting to some $25,000, which Burch refused to turn over. The court ruled that "dual" job holding, on state payrolls, was a violation of the state Constitution. Em'mprt acrppd with the maior-l ity opinion only so far as it said .

that "they are employes who do'nton Icr a league game wun not perform any official function! the Black Sox. The locals will cf government in carrying out be trying to get back on the their duties . . ." j winning path as they still have "But," he wrote, "I feel com- a slim chance of geting into the pelled to dissent from the absurd playoffs for the league crown, result and the reasoning by which l With the Merchants on the it is reached which holds that . . .'road, the Sullivan Red Caps will (each of them) was violating Sec-.take over at Pavilian Field for tion'.l, Article 3 of the Constitu-! Sunday, meeting the Bloomfield tion." Cardinals. This game will start "The difficulty with the major- at 2:30 p. m. The Red Caps will ity opinion is,' 'Emmert said, "that provide the local fans with their it seeks to impose upon various baseball entertainment for the members of the legislature ethical next three Sundays as the Merstandards for impartiality which chants will be traveling, are propefly required only of the Manager Taylor will probably judiciary." start Shipman and Thewlis as hit battery for the game with

Mrs. V. Rambis Dies Hear Shelburn Mrs. Victoria Rambis, age 62, of Shelburn route, died Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock. j Surviving are the husband, John; 'two sons, Joseph and Michael Rambis; six daughters, Mary and Frances Rambis, both 1 of Indianapolis, Mrs. Stella Ruszkievicz - and Miss Alena Rambis of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Mrs. Nell Mote of Phoenix, Arizona, and Miss Cecelia" Rambis. at home. The body was taken to the McHugh Funeral Home in Shelburn. Requiem mass will be held Monday morning at 9 o'clock at St. Mary's Church in Sullivan. Burial will be made in Center Ridge Cemetery.

State To Get Cool 1 Sunny Weekend i INDIANAPOLIS, July 23 (U.R) The . weatherman promised Hoosiers sunny, cool weather for the weekend. Temperatures were expected to remain about normal for the next five days with warmer weather in prospect for Sunday and Mon-. day. The mercury was slated to take another slight dip Tuesday and Wednesday. Only local showers were forecast in scattered areas Monday night through Wednesday. The Indianapolis weather bureau predicted mostly cloudy

skies and lower humidity today, with clearing skies and cooler temperatures on tap for tonight. Sunny and pleasant weather was slated for tomorrow. The mer cury was expected to stay in the 70's today and drop low as 55 tonight. ' ' " Temperatures remained in the mid 80's yesterday in most areas of the state. Evansville reported the highest maximum reading of 87, and Indianapolis,' Lafayette Marion, South Bend and Terre Haute all recorded highs of 83. The coolest s'pot in the state was Fort Wayne, where a 76-degree high was reported. Meanwhile, the Indiana State Department of Conservation said that rainstorms in most Hoosier counties this week had almost put fishing at a standstill. But forecasts for fair weather this weekend brightened prospects for anglers,, especially in smaller streams. Lewis May Testify On Union Shop WASHINGTON, July 23 (UP) John L. Lewis may testify personally in defense of the legality of his new "union shop" contract in the captive coal mines, it was reported today. Welly K. Hopkins, counsel for the United Mine Workers, said the course of today's testimony before the National Labor Relations Board will determine, whether Lewis will be lcalled , to. the witness stand. ! Trlal Examiner WiUiamRing-: r s conducting hearings ' on leading , steel me cnaige .vi iu "cause the captive mines hadn't ap' proved the demand in a formal election, supervised by the labor board. Robert N. Denham, general counsel of the board, is prosecuting the steel companies' Inharcra in th rtrrtowri intfs hpforp ew ... ... . oRinger. Merchants On Road Red Caps At Home The Merchants hit the road travel to Sunday when they Clinton. He has asked all players to meet at the Bus Station at 11 a. m. Sunday for the trip to meet the Black Sox. CHECK FORGER WORKING HERE Officials of the Sullivan State Bank said this afternoon that a check forger is making the rounds in Sullivan. Harry Lowry.of the bank, said that so far two of the worthless checks have made their appearance at the bank, each of them for $25. He warned all merchants to be sure of any person for whom they cash checks. FILES COMPLAINT FOR PARTITION Murray McClanahan has filed a complaint for partition in the Sullivan Circuit Court against Hazel Patterson et al. -

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The third of the Council Summer Park will be given Sunday the City Park. The Church Services night at program will start at 7:30 p. m. This week, the speaker will be the. Rev. Homer G. Weisbecker of the Presbyterian church. He is the third of the four local ministers who will appear as speaker on the program. The music for the Sunday services will be provided by the Baptist church. They have selected a mixed quartet, com posed of Mrs. Joe McCoskey, Mrs. Virgil Baldwin, Ross Harbaugh, and A. G. McGuire to sing a number of selections. The devotions for Sunday will be in charge of H. D. Campbell of the Christian church, and Perle Fisher of the Methodist church, will be the platform manager. After the services there will from be congregational singing hymn slides. Reds Release Three Americans They Captured BERLIN, July 23 (UP) An American military government engineer and two military pol icemen seized in the Soviet zone west of Berlin were released today by the Russians. The engineer, R. F. Goff, Altoona, Pa., was taken prisoner Wednesday near the Soviet-British zonal frontier when he attempted to pass through the So viet corridor. ,The Russians charged he attempted to evade their Marienborn checkpoint. Goff told reporters he wandered off the international highway between Berlin annd West Germany on the advice of a 10-year-old German hitch hiker h" picked up. The boy told him all American cars were taking a detour instead of going through on the highway. He said the Russians suspected he was spying on their rail line because he told them he once worked as a machinist for the Pennsylvania Railroad. ;They insisted on knowing his politics, including his views on Communism and Henry Wallace's chances in the election. "The Russians kept me in a guard room used by the German police but they kept hauling me question me," he said. "They did not use any strong arm stuff." He said they fed him three times, twice on bread and butter and tea and once on a bowl of fish. Military police reports said Goff left Berlin on Tuesday rather than Wednesday and listed him as missing for more than 48 hours. Goff said he didn't Know how that impression was given. CONDEMNED SLAYER GETS REPRIEVE INDIANAPOLIS, July 23 (UP) Thomas Kallis, scheduled to die' in the electric chair at Michigan City State Prison Sept. 3, today was granted a stay of executon until Dec. 7. Kallis was convicted in Lake j County May 14 on a charge of first degree murder. The stay of execution was the second awarded him after his attornevs asked for additional time to file I briefs for a new trial.

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Government Living Index Hits Hew High WASHINGTON, July 23 (UP) The government's cost of living index set a new alljtime record high today. The labor Department said that on June 15 retail prices for geeds and services used by moderate income families in large cities stood at 171.7 per cent of their 1935-39 average. The Department said this is "the highest recorded level." The figure was 9.3 per cent above a year ago, 28.8 per cent more than in June, 1946, just before the expiration of wartirne price controls, and 74.1 per cent above August, 1939, the start of World War II. The Department said retail Lprices of food led the advance. They rose 1.5 per cent from May 15 to June 15. In the same period, prices of fuel and house furnishings went up six tenths of one per cent, rents went up three tenths of one per cent. Prices of miscellaneous commodities and services remained unchanged and clothing prices dropped three tenths of one per cent. The overall price advance for , the one-month period of cost-of-living items between May 15 and June 15 was seven tenths of one per cent. Foci Index Up The Department said the food price index on June 15 was 214.1 per cent of the 1935-3S average. This , was 12.4 per cent above a year ago and 2.1 per cent higher than last January. It is "16 per cent above the postWorld War I peak in June, 1920. An increase in meat and egg prices was "mainly responsible for the rise" in foods, the department said. It said that these price increases "are much greater than the average seasonal increase." Between May 15 and June 15. food prices increased in 50 of the 56 cities surveyed. The increases ranged from one-tenth of one per cent in Dallas, Minneapolis and St. Paul to 3.5 per cent in Butte, Mont.. Decreases ranged from two tenths of one per cent in Los Angeles to eight tenths of one per cent in San Francisco. Clothing Drops The drop in clothing prices "broke an upward trend that had persisted throughout the past year," the Department said. It said there was a general decline in the prices for men's shirts and pajamas, boys' shirts m. n-. i .:j u:-v..! - v... ..;T.. the rise in house furnishings X ' group. General a i cite, bituminous coal and coke prices helped to push up the The rent index for large cities advanced three tenths of one f"4 fvrvtvi w i TVTo ir i-v w i A I - T. non(moiH tWc reflected ..continued adjust. ments under the housing and rent act of 1948, such as negotiated .rent increases up to 15 per cent, hardship adjustments, and increases for decontroled dwellings." PROCLAMATION The remains two of our war heroes, T-4 Keith Railsback and Pvt. Lowell Anderson, will be returned for final burial. They will arrive here Thursday afternoon. It is our Iwish that all business houses display their flags at half-staff from the time they arrive until after the funerals. : funeral services tor '17 F.ailsback will be held Saturday morning at 10 o'clock. It is our request that all business houses close from 10 a. m. until 11 a. m., the horr of the funeral. Funeral services for Pvt. Anderson will be held Sunday. Mayor Guy Biddle

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Wallace Willing To Visit Stalin To Get Peace PHILADELPHIA, July 23 (U.R) Henry A. Wallace said today that he would "go over to Russia" and see Premier Josef Sta lin if such action would the cause of peace. serve Wallace made the statement air a news conference called shortly after he arrived here to be on hand at the founding convention of his new third party. The convention opens tonight. It will nominate Wallace and Sen. Glen Taylor of Idaho for President and Vice-President tomorrow afternoon. Wallace said he had received no invitation from Stalin to visit Russia but that he would be glad to exchange views with the Soviet leader by letter or personal visits if such action would promote peace. The third party candidate urged reporters not to question i him about his Communist support. "No matter how hard you try, you are not going to get me to engage in red-baiting, and no matter how, hard you try, you fre not going to get me to admit that I am a Communist," he said. Wallace read a part of a radio statement he made last May in Albuquerque, N. M. It said: "I will not reject any support that comes to me on the basis of interest in peace." Today he conceded, however, that Communist support "is a political liability." Heavy Winds Cause Damage In Middle West CHICAGO, July 23 (UP) Communities in five Midwestern states today reported damage totaling almost $250,000 from tornadoes, high winds, rain and hail that struck the area yesterday. Tw es Moines men, Robert Voorhees, age 29,- and Carman Kcmcle were Ilrt rvn. T- ..U. U:U -i 1 r""6!' 7"e" , U1n . wmas .uuneiea meir piane to the 'ground as Voorhees banked it at a low altitude. I i One tornado cut a four-mile i wide swath along the Northern Illinois br,dert and, ired three persons. The twister demolished buildings, ripped roofs off houses and "pulverized" crops in its path, witnesses said. Com munications were disrupted.

freak wind and rain storm that .bile yesterday.

caused extensive crop damage at Eaton Rapids, Mich. The storm, which weather experts said was "not quite a tornado," swept a 10 mile area north of Eaton Rapids and then blew out in the area near Leslie and Mason, Mich. Another violent storm tore

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, WASHINGTON, July 23. (UP) Gen. Lucius D. Clay American military commander in Germany, said today th , United States is determined to stay in Russian-besiegei j Berlin and has "the ability" to do so.

Clay made the statement to the House Foreign Affair committee. The meeting was closed. In a joint statement issued at the conclusion of the meet ing Committee Chairman Charles Eaton and Army Secretary Kenneth C. Royall said :

' "Gen. Clay presented to tin committee the general condition in Berlin and the action of thi American troops and personnel ii Berlin. Gen. Clay reiterated thi determination and ability of Am erican forces to carry out ou stated governmental policy in re mainining in Berlin, and supply ing those in the American sector, "Chairman Eaton joined thi Secretary of the Army in compli menting Gen. Clay upon thi splendid manner in which he an his troops and civilian personne are carrying out their mission ii Berlin and in Germany as ; whole." Eaton had asked Clay to tel the Congressmen "just where wi stand" with Russia. To See Newsmen. Following the hush-hush com mittee session, Clay was to tall with newsmen at the Pentagoi about the Soviet blockade am other U.S.-Russian problems ir Germany. He and his politica adviser, Ambassador Robert Murphy, leave Washington by plane tonight to return to their posts. They are expected to carrj with them new instructions foi dealing with the Russians. Claj and Muruhy were in conference with the nation's top military anc diplomatic leaders at the Whit House for almost two hours yesterday, and further talks are planned before they board theii plane. White House Press Secretarj Charles G. Ross said Clay maj drop in on President Trumar again before he leaves. The President sat in on part of yesterday'; meeting of his national securitj council at which Clay outlined the situation in Berlin. Can't Retire. Clay, who arrived here Wednesday night, refused to sa whether he had received anj "guidance" as to the future policj in Germany. When newsmen asked him whether he still cherishes his oft-expressed hope of retiring from active Army duty, he replied, "Obviously, that is now ou1 of the question." The reply spiked reports published in the German Communisl press that Clay was recalled tc this country' to be "rebuked foi his mistakes." Diplomatic officials reported meanwhile, that the United States and Britain so far have reachet no final agreement on the texts ol their next notes to Moscow or the Soviet siege of Berlin. The Anglo-American difficulties were traced in part to the delay ir forming a new French government, since it cannot be determ-

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lhet's attitude Germany. Five Killed In Gary Within 24 Hours GARY, Ind., July 23 (UP)Gary police said today that five pedestrians were killed ir traffic accidents in a 24-houi

Another tornado struck across ! period, the state line at Waukesha, Wis. I Three of the victims, Junioi No injuries were reported but Lee, age 26, L.cu Thompson the strong winds uprooted age 51, and Thomas L. Williams trees, toppled power and com- age 45, all of Gary, died earl; munications lines and tore the today of injuries suffered las roofs off two apartment build- night. The other two victims ings in a veterans housing pro- Stanley J. Turney, age 27, an

ject. ; George E. Sanders, age 20, bot One woman was reported formerly of Muncie, Ind., wer seriously injured during a struck and killed by an autcmo

Traffic authorities said ths with today's deaths, the traffi toll for Gary reached . 16, th same number as in the corres ponding period last year, de spite a rigorous campaign i gainst traffic law violators.

ern Indiana, knocking over Mr. and Mrs. William Shei trees, crops and utility poles, iherd of Indianapolis, are tl Country 'roads and fields were parents of a daughter, Louet flooded by heavy rains, adding ; Joy, born July 15h. The litt to the worries of corn farmers Miss weighed seven pounds ai

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