Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 50, Number 161, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 13 August 1948 — Page 1
WEATHER PARTLY CLOUDY ' Indiana: Fair tonight and partly cloudy Saturday. No decided change in temperature. SULLIVAN COUNTY. . CENTER OP ) POPULATION PRICE THREE CENTS VOL. 50 No. 161 UNITED PRESS SERVICE SULLIVAN DAILY TIMES- FRIDAY, AUG. 13. 1948. INTERNATIONAL PICTURE SERVICE
City Council lets Contract To Install 350 Parkina Meters
A contract for the installation of parking meters in the downtown district of Sullivan was let last night to M. II. Rhodes, Inc., of Hartford, Conn. The contract calls for 350 meters, more or' less. According to a city ordinance which the council has passed, the meters will be placed on both sides of the public square and for a block on each side of the streets leading out cf the square. . . .
However, although the ordinance makes provision for installing the meters for a block from the square, Mayor Guy Biddle said that at first they would be placed only a half black away from the square. The streets to have parking meters are East and West Washington Street, East and West Jackson Street, North and' South Court Street, and North and South Main Street. The meters will be two-hour parking meters. A time of twelve minutes will be available for a cent, and an hour will cents. cost 5 They are to be installed as soon as possible, according to the con tract let by the council.
Othor husinpss that, was trans-lined.
acted at the council meeting last ! nieht was to buv an Adams motor 1 grader from the Indianapolis Equipment Company. The council also allowed claims that were present for action. Merchants To Play At Home Sunday Sullivan's Merchants, waiting! for the playoff in the Western Indiana League, will play a tune-up game on Sunday at Pavilion Field against the ' Rassell Tavern . nine from 1 Terre
nine uvui ieue.(o nnmnnrA ,itV. WHS' lact
Haute. The game will, start at .jo p. m. . , ""The playoffs ..'will . slart' on Sunday, Aug. 22, with' the locals meeting the pennant-winning Commercial Solvents, who are undefeated in league play this nnl T'ltn rvnvmrt will Vm nlnimJ Vt r; ' in Memorial Stadium in Terre Haute, with the other games that may be necessary being played at Pavilion Field. That will be a best tw.o-out-of-thres series. The Tavern nine lost an eleven-inning game to the locals in league play, and they have always played the locals a good 'game. Fourth place in the league will be decided Sunday when New Goshen and Holscher Motors play off a tie for that spot. The winner will play the Ranes-O'Daniels nine in the first elimination, series. Manager Taylor said that he will send Bill Shipman to the mound for the locals, with Thewlis catching. The visitors will use Dowell and Blair. Legion Council Elects Officers Leonard J. Renaker, of Merom American Legion the Post No. 326, was elected commander of the Sullivan County Council of the American Legion at Dugger recently .Other officers to be elected include' Byron J. Hoover, Carlisle Post 236, vicecommander, and the Rev. "Tho mas Jennings, Sullivan 139, adjutant. Post Father Henry Bilz was the speaker for the meeting and talked on Americanism. It was announced that the . T" . n a t etn4 :n i Li-ii
wugger rosi wiu inuau He announCed that Maurice new officers for their post on Horwitz, a member of the ProAug. 21, with John A. Watkins, gressive party in Mari.on COUn-
yaai u.K cuummiiud, as installing officer. Plan Riles For Mrs. Berlfia Pierson j Funeral services for Mrs. : Bertha Pierson, age 80, who died at her residence in New Lebanon Thursday morning, will be j held at 2:30 o'clock Saturday ' afternoon at the New Lebanon Methodist Church with the Rev. C. E. Homberger, of the Merom Methodist Church officiating, i Burial will be in the Burnett Cemetery. , j The body was removed to the' residence at 2 o'clock this afternoon.
Neat Prices
espi uying Stri (By United Press) Meat prices have remained at high levels and even zoomed higher in many cases despite the price strikes waged by j hovis-ewives this week, a survey ot more man zo cities snowed today. But the women were determThey vowed to continue their fight until prices dropped, The movement spread today to Camden, N. J., where 2,500 housewives pledged to stop buying meat for 10 days beginning on Monday, t The survey .of stores across the nation showed that the average price of lamb chops rose from 86.02 cents to 87.09 a pound, T-bone , from 98.6 to 100.3 cents and pork chops from 80.8 to 83.4 cents. Bacon remained about steady, selling for 72.62 cents this week to . 73.09 last week. Roast ham also was about steady at 73.95 as "weU as ground steak (which sold at 87.17 cents this week compared" wltW " 87.61 "last week;' However, the averages did not show the full picture because numerous increases were outweighed by a small number . . . of extreme price drops. Ham, for example, rose two to three cents at Los Angeles, Charleston, W. Va., Detroit, Washington, Columbus, O., and Indianapolis, but the averages ; failed to show this because of j two big reductions, 12 cents at . Minneapolis and six cents at j Kansas City, Pork chops and lamb chops increased in more pities than i any other type of meat. Pork cuts were up from one to four cents at Washington, , Columbus, Minneapolis, Indlanapolis, Buffalo, St. Louis, Raleigh, N. C, Salt Lake City, Fort Wayne, New York', Milwaukee and, Atlanta. A six cent increase was tacked on today . at Boise. 'Ida Oklahoma City was the onlv jone besides Kansas City and Minneapolis to report a de- ) crease, from 75 to 72 cents', on '.pork chops. Butchers there said the "pork was reduced because Jit always moved slow in sum mertime." , Wallaceifes Plan Sunday Meeting An organizational meeting of , the Sullivan Countv Pr.osrpssivp ! party wnl be held at the City Park on Sunday, it has been ! announced. The meeting will start at 2 p. m., and has been called by Elza Wells, of Shelburn, temporary chairman. ty wiU fee tne speaker for the I Droeram. He is field rpnrespnt.ative for the United Electrical, Machine Workers, Radio and CIO. lewellyn Beheni Funeral Saturday Funeral services for Lewellyn Behem, age 72, who died Thursday; will be held at 10:30 a. m. Saturday at the Bethany church. The body will be removed from theNewkirk Funeral Home in Pleasantville . at 9:30 Saturday morning for the services at the church. Burial wi" be in the Booker Cemetery.
Jump
Reassessment Program To B At City Park
The reassessment meeting will be held at the City Park at 8 p. m. on Tuesday, it was announced today. In case of rain, the meeting will be held at the Court House auditorium at the same time. Three men will be at the meeting to discuss the reassessment of real estate and its effect on rural and urban taxpayers. The men are Joda Newsom, chief assessment and survey unit of the State Board .cf Tax Commissioners ,' A. S. Thomas,, director of the tax and legislative department of the F arm Bureau, and John V. Barnett, assistant research director of the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce. Indianapolis Set For Legion Meeting INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 13 (U.R) The vanguard of some 15,000 members of the American Le gion, trooped into town today as the state capital city prepared for the annual Legionnaire invasion. Only 3,500 of the visitors were delegates to the 30th annual -convention of the state department. The others came along just for the ride and to jam every available hotel room. The Legion itself headed a campaign to eliminate much of the "rough stuff," the antics which have brought criticism 10 the organization in past conventions. Hotels and police also were ready to protect property from damage by over-enthusiastic convention goers. The convention opens tomorrow with the first business session Sunday morning. Governor Gates will welcome the department then. ' : Band and chorus contests were scheduled for the weekend and there will be" paradeV'doWri' the city's bunting-bedecked streets Saturday night and Monday night. Interest centered on a proposed resolution to hike legion dues by 65 cents and on resolutions on Communism and a state veterans bonus. Officials said operations of the state department would be curtailed if the dues increase failed to pass as it did last year. There was less emphasis this year on politics, as much a part of the convention as parades and funmaking. Joseph Lutes, Indianapolis business man was the only candidate in the field for state commander to succeed Harold Morris of Gary. Lutes is a" veteran of both World Wars, a factor which might prevent a struggle for leadership between legion factions representing veterans ' of the two wars. oyiet Bloc On Danube Rebuffs Western Powers
BELGRADE, Aug. 13. (UP) said that was customary White The Soviet bloc majority of the House procedure. He asserted Danube Conference pushed he dld not read the charges athrough a proposal today to ex- Sainst Silvermaster and knew elude the Western powers from nothing about them. Subsequent
places on a new. control commission for the river. The vote was 7 to 3 for adoption of an article of the Soviet
draft, accepted as a working ba- jyiAN KILLLED sis for the conference, providing A CAR FALLS that the commission include only , Danubian states. ' j HAMMOND, Ind., Aug. 13 An American amendment which (UP) A man was. fatally crushwculd have given membership to ed last night when a jacked-up Western powers was rejected by auto accidentally fell on him. the same vote. Elmer Longfellow was removing Andrei Vishinsky, the Soviet the spring from a friend's car delegate, last night attacked the when his shoulder tipped the European recovery program as a jack, releasing the - auto. His "dictatorship." , ihead was pinned between the "The Marshall plan constitutes car's grill and the pavement. The economic dictatorship over eco- friend, returning from a garage,
nomically weaker states," Vishinsky said. FIVE TRUCKS IN ACCIDENT
AMITY, Ind., Aug. 13.-(UP)-' FAUGHT TO t0ACH Residents of this small Johnson AT S0UTH BEND County town still were picking up Stewart "Red" Faught left tothe pieces today left by a spec- day for South Bend, where he tacular five truck wreck yester- will be the backfield coach for day. No one was injured in the Riley High School. There he pile-up, but State Police estimat- will serve under Spike Kelly, ed damage at $10,000 and said who coached Faught while he they would file charges against was a member of the Sullivan two of the drivers involved. ! Golden Arrows.
4-H Club Fair Calves Purchased
The Crawford County Live stock Company bought all : the 4-H calves that were shown, at the County Fair here last week" end, it was announced today. : Prices for calves purchased from John O. Jackson, Patty Duffer, Barbara Bennett, Joan Duffer, I Dick Wright, Bob Halberstadt, ' Carol Dix and Frances Dix ranged from $37.50 to $37.75 per head. Dan W. Tibbs, representative .of the livestock' company, purchased them for the j Armour ivieai jracmiig vumpany. The company complimented these 4-H members of the high standard quality and finish of their calves and the entire county 4-H group for their achievements in the livestock exhibits. They voiced their desire for such sales at all future livestock exhibits here in the county and expressed their willingness to compete as buyers. " New Dealers ! Deny Giving Secrets To Reds WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (U.R) Two high-ranking former New Deal .officials today denied they ever gave U. S. secrets to a wartime Soviet spy ring, but testified they were friends of an accused ring leader. One of the officials admitted helping the alleged spy keep a government job. I The witnesses, both of whom appeared voluntarily before the i-iuuse uiiAmerican activities committee, were former White House Aide Lauchlin Currie and former Assistant Secretary of Treasury Harry D. White. Both denounced as false testimony by Elizabeth T. Bentley, ex-courier- for- the ring,- that tht$ -i supplied confidential war information which was transmitted to Russia. But both said they were old official and social acquaintances of Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, former employe of the Board of Economic Warfare. Miss Bentley said secret U. S. papers were microfilmed in Silvermaster's home for dispatch to the USSR. Silvermaster has denied her charges: Both Currie and White testified that on different occasions they intervened when others in the government tried to get Silvermaster fired. At the concA -sion of Currie's testimony, Rep. Karl E. Mundt, R., S. D., voiced the opinion that his story proved he was the unwitting tool of Communist spies. Previous testimony had disclosed that both Naval , intelligence and the Civil Service Commission had issued wartime reports questioning the Russianborn Silvermaster's loyalty. The reports accused him of being a Communist and said he was s pected of being a member of the NKVD Soviet Secret Police. Currie said he intervened only ! to the extent of referring t! a j case to the War Department. He ; ly, me men undersecretary or j War, Robert P. Patterson, cleared Silvermaster. learned of the accident from neighbors who ambulance. had called an
Dewey To Use iDor! Innniru
: iVvi biiuuii r
i
In Campaign
By Joseph Nolan United Press Staff Correspondent Gov. Thomas E. Dewey's cam paign manager made it clear today that the GOP Presidential nominee will make a big issue of the current Communists-in-Wash-ington investigation. In Albany, N. Y., where he is holding a strategy conference with Dewey, Herbert Brownell, 1 Jr., said "our mail shows muchj more interest in the Communist ' investigation than anything thathappened in Washington in the last three weeks." Brownell apparently meant that Dewey will place far .more emphasis on the Communist Investigation than on the special session of Congress. In Washington, the Republicancontrolled House un-American activities committee announced plans for extending the inquiry which Democrats have denounced as an attempt to "smear" the Roosevelt - Truman administration. Committee Chairman J. Parnell Thomas, R., N. J., promised to call "persons high in the government and high in the military." Mr. Truman and Henry A. Wallace renewed their charges that the investigation is a "red herring" and an example of "political gangsterism." Wallace said in a radio broadcast from New York that the House committee is resorting to "the political techniques of Hitler, Mussolini, Goering, Tojo and Franco." Brownell said Dewey will con duct an extensive coast-to-coast campaign and will even invade the traditional Democratic strong- j holds south of the Mason-Dixon line. ! Dog Days Not Due Yef itSays Here INDIAN APOLIS. Aue.' &ZU.to The familiar mid-August "dog ' uays toaay were not slated to; come t o Indiana for at least a ' week yet. ' The Indianapolis weather bu- i reau forecast that temperatures would average slightly below normal for the next five days ' in Hoosierland. And "normal" in most parts cf the state means mercury readings in' the mid80's. The five-day outlook was for ' little change in temperature over the state with scattered light showers slated mainly for late Sunday and Monday. The imr I diate forecast was for partly cloudy skies today and fair weather tonight. Partly cloudy weather was seen for tomorrow. The mercury was expected to stay in the low 80's today and to drop to around 60 degrees tonight. Herman Goeffsch Riles To Be Here The body of Herman H. Goet- , tsch, 82-year-old resident of St. Petersburg, Florida, arrived in Sullivan this morning and was taken to the Billman Funeral Home where funeral services will be conducted Saturday morning at 10 o'clock with the Rev. E. E. Aldrich officiating. Interment will be made , in Center Ridge Cemetery. Mr. Goettsch died Saturday, August 7th at the home of his friend, Robert Linkenhoker in St. - Petersburg. The deceased had never resided here, however, his great friendship with the Linkenh.ckers prompted his request for burial in their home community. He is survived only by a number of nieces and nephews. Funeral Saturday For Roy Wolfe Funeral services for Roy Wolfe, age 67, who died Thursday morning at the Mary Sherman Hospital will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Shaker Prairie Church., The Rev. H. W. Nuckqls will officiate. Burial will be in the Oaktown Cemetery. MARRIAGE LICENSE A marriage license was issued by the county clerk to Joanna Louise Dale .of Sullivan, R. 1, and Kenneth Martin Bedwell of Sullivan, R. 3.
Held Her- Prisoner; leds
MOSCOW, Aug. 13 (UP) Russian officials made it plain today that they were placing full responsibility .on the United States Department of State for the "kidnaping" of two Soviet teachers in New York. , The official Soviet position was that an organized plot, with official connivance, produced the incident, to which the Rus- 1 sians were attaching increasing importance. Seme quarters saw a probability of official reprisals against Americans here if the .case is not settled amicably. Already it was serving to inflame public Opinion against American authorities. The Soviet press gave prominent display to Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov's protest -to Ambassador W. Bedell Smith.
The press and radio stepped up I for a ground controlled landan intense campaign of denunc-iing at Templehof airdrone iation against American author-1 crashed and burned today, but ities, the New York police and ' the three crewmen escaped unthe Federal Bureau of In vesti- injured, gation. The government orean Izves- The crash of the foiy-engined
tia, in an article by Vladimir. Kudravavsev. said:
is the voice of the whole Soviet , addition to the two previous ac- f thouf J j JJJ the vce con--ij ...uj-u -.i 'riHpnt in whih Amonn i sui she did not want to see any-,
wuu wm m peimu any offense against its people, no matter where they are. "Soviet public opinion demands the liberation of the abU l u ouvlcl cn u, anu a aralS.UUI1 uL ms (Mif vn rrnniio nl win 4tn w.-asuo Kionei immuiiiKiu i uie cm"It demands that the dirty hands of political gangsters not dare touch the citizens of the great Soviet Union." All newspapers here published long articles of the same general tenor! ' 1 .The ease .:may- cause embarrassment to the State Department, observers here believed, which for a long time has been engaged in a controversy with Soviet authorities over the immunity of non-diplomatic personnel. The Russians have been arguing that only strictly diplomatic officials accredited here enjey immunity from the local legal processes. In a recent accident an American sergeant attached to the Embassy here was charged with criminal assault against a Sov-1 iet citizen. The Embassy did j not permit him to appear in
court, on grounds that, though Qla not reveal LI1K exaLl Lasuaihe was not a diplomat, he was . y figureDart of the Ambassador's staff 1 The brief announcement said
and therefore was immune. Bumper Crop Won't Result In Cheaper Chops INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 13. (U.R) Bumper crops won't result in cheaper crops, the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce gloomily predicted today. The Chamber said anticipated record productions of many crops in Indiana probably won't bring down the cost of eating. Manager Robert D Hammer , of the Chamber's
agriculture-istriD
business department cited several reasons He said farm parity prices, increased costs of marketing, wage increases, overseas shipments, and general freight rate boosts will absorb the additional crops and keep prices at a high level. Hammer said bumper grain crops might increase the pork
supply by next spring. But he:The Kraft Foods Company said
said it took from 18 months to three years to change cattle producion and beef supply. He predicted milk prices would go "even coming winter." That statement higher this was backed up by Indianapolis dairymen who testified at hearing called to investigate recent price boosts on milk that the price situation would get worse before it got better. Hammer also sai d that prices of canned foods was expected to remain near present levels.
By Richard G. Harris ' United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK. Aue 13. (UP) A Russian school teach-
er who jumped in fear of her S-ia nnr,eua onn,aA tua as a prisoner for six days. "You kept me a prisoner." ' 52, told the Russian vice-consul
room this morning', x ou would not let me go.
Three American Planes Reported To Have Crashed BERLIN, Aug. 13 (UP) An American C-54 transport corning in through dirty weather Plane was the third oi .the vast i aerial operation hurdling the Russian blockade of Berlin. In - V"""h ' en were Killed, two other U. s- transports had trouble with the weather today but managed to land safely. Ground crewg said that h the c54 iled tQd f ' 1 the crewmen calmly stepped aside as he left jt whipped out a camera and snapped a picture just as it burst into flames. Those aboard were Capt. George Adams, the pilot; CoPilot Lineton T. Floyd and Engineer Charles O'Hara. All can 1 here, from the Suisin, California Air. Base, ..... , Two hours after the crash, another plane lost two engines but landed safely at Gatow airdrome in the British sector. ROSWELL, N. M., Aug. 13 (UP) A B-29 Superfortress , on a routine training flight crashed and burned three miles south of here late last night, Air Force officials announced today. Maj. C. A. Beck, commander of the Walker Air Force Base here, said that "some"' of the crew members were killed. He j I 1 1 1 1 Al - L .1 the B-29 crashed at 11:30 p. m. (MST) after a take-off from the Walker base. A B-29 norimally carries a crew of 11. Beck said further details were being withheld pending notification of relatives o.f those killed and injured in. the crash. GUAM, Aug. 13 (UP) The charred wreckage of a Navy Privateer patrol bomber was
found today, halfway up an j were arrested on charges of sell-800-foot cliff on R.ota Island, 50 ing unregistered securities and
i'f f 1. V jdead - . . . ,. The number aboard the Wrecked plane was not known but such types usually carry a crew of 11. Two C-47's loaded with doc - to2 and rescue crews, landed r ! on an abandoned Japanese air , T ! .J immediatelv after distress ,.M ii. 1TZ, " Z cu y scan.il picnics. Search for the missing plane, was started Wednesday! afternoon by Navy and Air Force planes and Japan-based destroyers, DECATUR KRAFT PLANT STUCK CHTCAftO Alio 15 CTTP. today it was at a loss to understand why 50 workers at its Decatur, Ind., bulk cheese plant ! walked out. The comoanv said the union itself had requested a postponement in negotiations j to Aug. 23 at a meeting Aug. 10. i The old contract expired July 1: Kraft said it offered the union a six-cent hourly wage boost, and an extension in working hours which would add another six-cents to take-home pay. The company proposed, however, to withdraw a hour paid lunch period. half-
life from the third story of the p,i00ioa tnrW rvf hr.lrlino- hpr.
Mrs. Oksana Kosenkina, age when he entered her hospital She refused to see Soviet Con sul tienerai jacoD LoraaKin, whu. announced last Saturday that he had "rescued" her from the Tol stoy Foundation farm colony where he claimed she was held as. a prisoner after she had been drugged and kidnaped by "White Russians." , ' Mrs. Kosenkina kept her eyes closed most of the time Soviet Vice-Consul Zot Chepurnykh was in her hoom. When she did open them, she refrained from looking at Chepurnykh. Mrs. Kosenkina had asked po lice, who kept a heavy guard around Roosevelt Hospital to prevent possible attempts on her life, to keep Russian officials away from her room because "J fear them." I ... . cne," Mrs. Kosenkina last night, a . . few hours after she leaped from a consulate window, was visited by three persons. One of them was Vladimir Zensinov, antiCommunist Russian who hafi driven her to the farm near Nyack, N. Y., from which the Soviet consul general later "rescued" her. The others were Peter Hoguet, attorney for Common Cause, Inc., anti - Communist organization which had obtained a court order for Lomakin to produce Mrs. Kosenkina, and Isaac Don Levine, publisher of Plain Talk magazine. Mrs Kosenkina; held" In the consulate in'"defiance 'of "the New Yor Supreme Court order to produce her, was one of three Russian teachers who did not take the July 31 ship which was to have carried them back to their homeland. The other two, Mikhail Samarin and his wife, Claudia, hid from Soviet authorities until they were placed under subpoena by the House un-American activities committee to tell about Soviet activities: hero Chepurnyakh was permitted to enter Mrs. Kosenkina's room shortly before noon. Terre Haufe Couple Facing Charges TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Aug. 13' (U.R) Authorities today held a Terre Haute indusrialist and his wife on charges of selling unregistered stock in a now bankrupt enterprise. They were Dr. H. A. R. Zehlaut, head of he U. S. Machine Tool Manufacturing Corporation, j Clinton, and Mrs. Zehrlaut. Both faiiUrf t0 register as a sec" ui,M ueaier. I Complainants were Miss Mary ,Strassmier, age 62. Terre Hautp a former servant in the Zehrlaut household, and Maurice Sodet, an employe at the Clinton plant. 1 Zehrlaut's Dlant. tho tt s in,. I rhnp tw,i ifav,f,t.,..; ' . " u..uv,uuilg v,ur1 va"us. lP5 "e dlio "eaas 3 Brazl s a Brazil, ina. rm which manufactures farm I eauiDment Affidavits charged that Miss Strassmier investged $75j00M stock in th Clinton torn bS received no return on the money. When she tried to get it back, Zehrlaut refused her, she charged. She said she worker! "or the couple .for 17 years and the money" represented her lite savings. Sodet claimed he purchased $5,000 worth of stock. The Zehrlauts were in jail today although they hoped to produce bond set at $5,000 each. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Mr. and Mrs. Stewart "Red" Faught are the parents of a son born Aug. 12, at St. Anthony's Hospital, Terre Haute. He weighed seven and one-half pounds and has been named Edwin Ray. Mrs. Faught is the former Elizabeth Jean Lewellyn.