Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 50, Number 174, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 1 September 1948 — Page 1

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vxEATHER FAIR THURSDAY Indiana: Fair tonight ami Thursday. A little warmer central portion. SULLIVAN COUNTY, . CENTER OP .1 POPULATION VOL. 50 No. 174 UNITED PRESS SERVICE SULLIVAN DAILY TIMES WEDNESDAY, Sept. 1, 1948. INTERNATIONAL PICTURE SERVICE PRICE THREE CENTS

Warren To Start 60P Campaign Through Midwest By James F. Donovan United Press Staff Correspondent Gov. Earl Warren of California, the Republican Vice Presidential nominee, will be lead-off man in his party's bid for its first presidential election victory since 1928.

GOP Campaign Manager Herbert Brownell, Jr., announced today that Warren will leave California Sept. 15 for a campaign swing that will carry him as far east as Ohio. The trip will carry him into 13 states in 10 days. He will be in Evansville, Ind., and Louisville, Ky., Sept. 22. Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New Yorkj top man on the GOP ticket, is not expected to begin campaigning until the latter part of this month. He reportedly plans to leave Albany for a western swing on Sept. 20, five days after the Warren train gets under way. Brownell said Warren will make major campaign addresses to GOP rallies in eight cities. They are Salt Lake City, Utah; Pueblo, Colo.; Albuquerque, N. M.; Tulsa, Okla.; St. Louis, Mo.; Louisville, Ky.; Columbus, O., and Detroit. President Truman will open his western swing with a speech at Dexter, la., Sept. 18. White House officials said details of the , rest of the trip will be worked out next week. Other political developments: LABOR Director Jack Kroll of the ClO's Political Action Committee predicted that. President Truman will be elected if more than 58,000,000 people vote in the Nov. 2 election. The CIO execu tive board endorsed the TrumanBarkley ticket yesterday by a vote of 35 to 12. Only pro-Wallace left-wing labor leaders opposed the endorsement. LOUISIANA Russell Long, 29-year-old son of the late Sen, Huey "Kftpgfish" Long, was engaged in a nip-and-tuck. primary Dauie with Appellate Judge Robert F. Kennon for the right to fill out the unexpired term of the late Sen. John Overton. Kennon was given a substantial lead in early returns from yesterday's voting, but returns from the country par ishes narrowed the gap consider ably. TEXAS Former Gov. Coke Stevenson retained a slight 300yote lead over Rep. Lyndon John son in their primary race for the U. S. Senatorial nomination. Almost all returns are in, but formal certification of the winner must aviit the meeting of the Demo cratic state executive committee later this month. MINNESOTA Rival candidates for the U. S. Senatorship incumbent Sen. Joseph H. Ball, Republican, and Mayor Hubert H. Humphreys of Minneapolis, a Democratbickered over subjects for their public debate. Ball's associates said only two subjects could be debated Taft-Hartley law and the return of the OPA. Softball Fans To Name Best Player A contest to name the most valuable player in the , Sullivan Softball League has been decided upon, with the fans, who visited Legion Field during the season deciding on who will get the award. The Junior Chamber of Commerce and K. B. Smith, local jeweler, will donate a trophy to be given to the player named. The fans are asked to write the name .of the player they think deserves the award on a slip of paper and send it to the Sports Committee, care of The Times. The . ballots will be counted by a committee named by Tom Grayson, president of the Jaycees, and the winner will be announced soon. So that the player may receive his trophy before the end of the season, all votes must be in The Times office before Sept. 12. The trophy will be given to the most valuable player at a game during the last week of play at the local field. BRAZIL CANNING STRIKE ENDS BRAZIL, Ind., Sept. 1. (UP) Work at the Libby, McNeil and Libby canning plant continued today. Workers struck here three weeks ago in support of a 10-cent l hourly wage increase demand, and returned to production yesterday when a company offer of seven cents was accepted,

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INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. '1. (U.R) Two major and at least fourj minor political parties will be represented on the Hoosier ballot Nov. 2, statehouse officials said today. Until five p. m. today, petitions for a place on the ballot will be received from minor parties at the Secretary of State's office. Thursday, the state election board will meet and rule on the validity of the petitions. Petitions from the Progressive, Socialist-Labor and Socialist parties already have been filed. Election board officials said they understood representatives of the States' Rights (Dixiecrat) party planned to file a petition before the deadline. The Republican, Democratic and Prohibition parties all were a -sured of a place on ' the ballot without filing petitions.- State law provides that any new party must j get signatures equal to one-half of one per cent of the total votes - cast for the Secretary of State at

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to gain a place on the ballot. The bWPSt nPtitinn ,no m'DA by the Progressive party, headed by Presidential Candidate Henry Wallace and Gubernatorial Candidate Walter N. Frisbio. The Progressive's total was 12,000 signatures, the Socialist-Labor 8,280, and the Socialist total 7,485 signatures. Charles. Ginsberg, Indianapolis, headed the Socialist-Labor ticket, while William Rabe, Sr., Evans ville, was the Socialist candidate for governor. Release Police From Evansville Strike Duty EVANSVILLE, Ind., Sept. 1. (UP) The force of, 140 .Indiana State Police troopers guardina the struck Bucyrus-Erie plant here was cut in half today as some 600 of the concern's 1,200 employes reported for work. Sixty state troopers were kept on the alert to guard against violence.

coi. ttODert itossow, &uperin- ancing ana trampoline peuuuu- Heai an(j the Indiana Tubertendent of State Police, who ear- ance. This group has appeared cu.osjs Association, lier said the troopers would be with the largest circuses in the, We will nave two units held here "as lorg as they are country. , operating at the State Board of needed," said today that the full Chris Stevens, noted for her Health building which is north force assigned to the plant during beauty is a vocalist with the 0f the Manufacturers' building," a back-to-work move yesterday University Follies, and the glee rjr. Bundy said todav. "Persons apparently was needed no longer, club and the notable quartette oyer fifteen years of age are Troopers said small crowds of are part of the unit. One of the welcome to have a chest X-ray spectators heckled the seven wo- highlights is the glee club's ar- taken. Last year we took 13,512 men pickets that marched in front rangement of the ever popular X-rays and as a result 208 susof the plant gates this morning. Whiffenpoof song and When picious cases were found. But they added that the groups of You Were Sweet Sixteen. A , "Our procedures this year will curiosity-seekers that jammed trombone trio and clarinet section be the same. If the results are nearby streets yesterday had is featured with the band. The negative, the individual will be thinned out "considerably." musical arrangements for the notified. After the films are Two arrests were made in min- Illinois Follies were writtan by read, the cards will be sent to

or jostling skirmishes this morning. The company reopeend the plant yesterday after 37 persons were arrested in a flare of violence Saturday. Big Four Na Meet In Pari In September WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 (UP) Diplomatic quarters predicted today the Council of Foreign Ministers will meet in Paris late this m.or.th if current BerlinMoscow . talks on Germany achieve enough progress. Secretary of State George C. Marshall leaves Sept. 19 for the Paris meeting of the . United Nations General Assembly. It was pointed out that the assembly meeting would provide a convenient opportunity for the Big' Four ministers to resume their deliberations. The current discussions on 'technical' aspects of the Berlin currency and blockade are expected to end well before the assembly meets Sept. 21. The present plan is for the three Western ambassadors in Moscow to then resume their talks with Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov. However, Marshall and his British and French counterparts will be in Paris, and it was generally' expected that Mol.otov would be there also. In that case there would appear little' reason to continue the fourpower talks at any level less than that of the Council Foreign Ministers. of

Illinois Follies At Festival On Monday

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Monday, Sept. 6, will be the closinS day of tne Merora Blu.a , ail festival. Un the stage in Cresting and educational farm panel, ine speaKers The speakers will be President Hassil Schenck of the Farm Bureau and Hon. James H. Terry international board .member of District 20 of Birmingham, Alabama! The morning will be devoted to the program on the stage of the 4-H Club. The afternoon program will be supported with vaudeville and circus acts. In the evening the stage will be taken over by the Illinois Follies, a show composed entirely of University .of Illinois

talent plus Jonnny tsruce ana irom tne United States and its his versatile dance band. Other possessions for several months, acts in this array of college domestic airborne service is being stars are Ventriloquist Bob launched for the first time in his,Wiss and "Whitey O'Day." Bob tory. ' ... . and Whitey. have been appear- j

ing in the large clubs and theaters throughout the country and just a few months, ago Bob was declared ' the winner . of WGN's "Most' Promising "Show- : man . of the Year contest: lie i was presented with a' certificated and live nunarea aonars casn l)Ilz;eAlso with this organization are the Aristocrats of Balance, a trio composed of two young men and a young lady, acclaimed for their death-defying stunts in aerial work, hand bal-

Gordon "Bud Pentz. Bud has the respective . county tubercua Bachelor of Arts degree in 0sis association or full-time

music from the University of Illinois and is now studying for a Master's degree. The director of the band, Johnny Bruce, is a graduate of the University of Illinois. During his three year , stay in the Navy, Johnny had his own show band in the South Pacific, playing 'for the G.I. sh-w trouoes and traveling with such big names in radio and pictures as Jack Benny, Randolph Scott and Carole Landis. On his return to this country, he organized and led the famous "Seahawk" dance band in the Naval Preflight Sch.ool, Iowa' City. Iowa. Johnny's band will furnish the music for the bathing beauty pageant to be held on the stage just preceding the follies. Jaycees To Present ; Combinations Thurs. The Sullivan Junior Chamber of Commerce will present the four radio-pb.'nograph combinations they have bought for the local schools to Allan Campbell, superintendent ' .of schools, at a dinner meeting Thursday night. The Jaycees voted to buy the four combination sets for the local schools to aid in the audio education program. The combinations are all table models, and can be moved from room to room in the different school ! buildings in Sullivan. ' I Thomas Grayson, president of the Jaycees, will present the combinations at the ' meeting scheduled to start at 6:30 p. m. 'at the Sullivan Hotel.

Air Parcel Post begins Today

With the inauguration of na.lonwide - worldwide air parcel post today, the United States can ooast of the most modern and ex - peditioiis delivery service in the .vorld. according to Postmaster C. O. Hall of Sullivan.

The new highly specialized air-1 Root chain of this dis.orne service enacted into Jaw: brmch of the Wm T by the 80th Congress, will afford Kn8tt f,m of New York is patrons of more than 42,000 post1 opening a large department offices in America and its POS-'sto in Robinson where for sessions unexcelled shipping fa- sev'eraI years they have main-

unities. Transit time Will De reduced to a fraction of that re - quired by other modes of trans - ,i,n pvi tauuui t Postmaster Hall pointed out) that air parcel post packages will receive the same particular con sideration shown air mail in routing. In addition, identical doorstep delvery will be given to air parcel post as is afforded other forms of mail, making the airborne mail service unique in ev ery respect. He added that distinct air parcel post stickers, printed in red, white and blue and bearing the likeness of a winged package with tne earths globe underneath, will soon be available without cost at the Sullivan Post Office to apply to outgoing packages. "With a scheduled plane taking off or landing within the United - States on an average of everv

seven seconds around the clock, 'early today after an all-night and an overseas-bound plane; bargaining session between cornleaving our borders every 30 min- pany officials' and representatives utes, we stand ready to give our of the 24,000 striking UAW mempatrons the fastest parcel post bers at seven Harvester plants, service offered anywhere." trnion officers agreed to send While international air parcel maintpnanpp nprsonnel into the

post service has been available Chest X-rays At State Fair "visitors" at "Ine ' irTdtanaslateT Fair win asain haye thg oppor itunitv to have miniature rhpst X-rays, according to Dr. Merle Bundy, director, Division of Tuberculosis Control, Indiana State Board .of Health. This service is offered through the co operation of the State Board of local health department. If the film indicates further study is needed, the .individual will be notified to see the family physician who has been advised of the reading as recorded by the i recent genologist." Clothiers Receive League Trophy Bob Monroe, manager of Engle Clothiers, was given the trophy for winning the league championship last night at Legion Field by Tom Grayson, president of the Jaycees, who with K. B. Smith, local jeweler, donated the trophy to the league. Monroe made a short speech .of acceptance, and Carl Engle, sponsor of the team, also made a short talk. In' games played last night, the league champion Clothiers nosed out the Jaycees 7 to 6 in eight innings, as the Jaycees played lose ball in the field. Watkins went the route for the winners, and Hummell lost for the Jaycees. Lee French, the old professor, hit a home run for the Jaycees. In the other' game last night, Carlisle outscored the Legion 12 to 6. Davidson won the game, and, Paul Truelock was the loser. The Engle Clothiers have challenged the Legion All-Stars to a ' grudge" battle to decide which is the best team in town. No date has been set for the game, but it will . be played within a week or two. The All-Stars will play Post 40 of Terre Haute in the Marshall tourney tonght at 8 o'clock.

Root Store Has Hew Manager Robert A. Smoldt of

Denver, Sullivan Colorado, has .come to where he has accepted the ! r' sition as manager of the Root Store replacing Paul Martsolf who is being transferred to Roibinson, Illinois. ianBA a small annlianrp pstah.Stnt. 1 ) Mr anH Mrs Smoldt and their i f ; two; sons will establish their residence in Sullivan as soon as housing facilities permit. Harvester, CIO In Agreement To End Strike HHICAGO. Seot. 1. (UP) The ' nrt TTnftpH An to Workers reached i a new contract agreement with International Harvester Company tnriav and Pnded its 16-dav-old 1 strike against the firm. I Tho corwmpnt was , rparhed plants today to prepare them for reopening on Friday. 'The agreement provides for separate contracts at each plant instead of the former single company-wide contract. , UAW officers emphasized that; the workers at each plant must ratify the agreement covering them before they will return to work. v However, they said, thd general !ajkeagamst the company , has oeeq terminated, .cacn local voting io continue the strike will do so on its own initiative. Richard Siegel1, a company spokesman, said that "by Friday, we expect all of our employes back in the plants." A union representative said the contracts will include all clauses agreed upon before the UAW struck Aug. 17. Sections not covered by new agreements will be covered by clauses lifted from the previous contract. "It is significant that the final agreement was the same one the company offered the day before the strike started," Siegel said. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS Mr. and Mrs. John Kirt.on of Graysville are the parents of a son, John Robert Jr., born August 29th at the Mary Sherman Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Francis McKain of Merom announce the arrival of a son, Jerry Wayne, born August 31st at the Mary Sherman Hospital. I wir. ana ivirs. wayne wamsa of Shelburn are the parents of a :son, Wayne David, born August i 30th at the Mary Sherman Hos i pital. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Lucas of Shelburn, R. 2, are the parents of a son born August 31 at the

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COL. GEN. ANDREI A. ZHDANOV (left), defender of Stalingrad during the war, organizer of the European Cominform, and regarded as a possible successor to Premier Stalin with whom he is pictured here, is dead in Moscow after a severe illness. The 52-year-old Politburo member was" considered to be Stalin's chief anti-western strategist. He will be buried at the base of the wall of the Kremlin. His death is expected to raise the personal prestige of Foreign Minister

Molotov in Soviet counsels.

Saddle Club

Plans Horse Show Monday The Sullivan Saddle Club will spons.or a Western horse show at the 4-H Club Fairgrounds on Monday, Labor Day, it has been announced. The show will start at 1:30 p. m., (CST) .and will continue through fifteen events. In case of rain, the event will ? held, toe ll0Wing ' Su"day' t , , Refreshments will be served and the Saddle Club' has stated that it will not be responsible for accidents. The events listed, in which all participants must be members of a saddle club, will include: 1. A pony race, 48 inches and under, tor fourteen year olds and under. 2. A Western model class. 3. Children's horsemanship, with 50 percent for the horse, 50 percent for the rider, open to those 14 years old and under. 4. An elimination 200 yard dash, open to all. 5. Stock horse class. 6. Women's 200 yard dash. 7. Colt class, shown to halter, 18 months and under. 8. Pressure class, open. 9. Relay race. 10. P.ony race, 48 inches to 58 inches, 16 years and under. 11. Pony express. 12. Diaper race, adults only. 13. Stake race, open. 14. Pair race. 15. 200 yard dash finals. State Police To Check Drivers INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Sept. 1 This Labor Day week-end may be one cf the toughest that Indiana traffic- law violators ever .experienced. , , .. Col Robert Rossow,; superintendent of State Police," today warned that "every effort will be exerted to stop speeders, drunken drivers, traffic lane weavers and other dangerous operators before they kill themselves or others." All available troopers in the 10 department districts will patrol state roads under direct orders from Colonel Rossow to arrest reckless motorists. Post L'eutenants have been requested to give particular attention to traffic "hot spots" in their districts. Prospects are that the holiday highway travel will exceed prewar volumes. A record traffic am is anticipated between noon and midnight on Labor Day, as summer vacationers and weekenders return to their homes. The traffic flow on state roads this season has increased subtantially over a corresponding period a year a?o, records show. "Lives would be saved if each driver pledged himself to drive carefully," the enforcement official urged. In the four-day Labor Day week-end a year ago, 11 persons were killed and 670 others injured in 1,506 reported accidents, BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Dr. and Mrs. Irvin H. Scott of 330 West Washington Street are the parents of a daughter born this morning at the Mary Sherman Hospital. The little Miss (International Newsphoto.)

Zhdanov Funeral To Be Elaborate LONDON, Sept. 1 (UP) Radio Moscow announced elab

orate plans today for the state funeral of Col. Gen. Andrei A. Zhdanov, secretary of the Communist party- central committee whose death from a heart ailment was disclosed yesterday. He was 52 years old. Zhdanov was one of the four top men in the Soviet heirarchy and a leading contend with Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov for the mantle of power worn by Generalissimo Josef Stalin. Western experts agreed that Zhdanov's death has removed the Western powers' most bitter enemy in Russia and the one man above all others who is leading the drive for Soviet domination of the world. The Moscow announcement said Zhdanov died yesterday afternoon after a serious illness. The length of hisS illness was not stated, although he was known to have been in good health a month ago. A committee of five doctors testified he died of high blood pressure, hardening of the arteries and heart disease. No other details of his death, or of his last hours, were made known in a number of broadcasts devoted to his life and his achievements for the Communist party. Berlin Blockade May Be Ended By Sunday BERLIN, Sept. 1 (UP Plans r lift the 74-dav-old Soviet blockade of Berlin were discussed today by a four-power transport committee and reliable reports said Western supply trains may be rolling into Berlin by Sunday. '""Financial 'and' transport advisers to the four military governors of Germany met this morning in the Allied Control Council building to break the Berlin stalemate that has existed since four-power rule ended last March. Reliable reports said the transport committee discussed plans to lift the Berlin blockade and the financial committee discussed . t- 1. plans to install the Russian mark as the sole legal currency for Berlin, subject to four-power control. Gen. Lucius D. Clay and the British, French and Russian military commanders are scheduled to meet again at 5 p. m. to follow up their initial meeting yesterday which set the committee consultations in motion. It was generally believed the Big Four commanders would consider reports from their committees. Belief that the blockade would be lifted soon was borne out by reports that two huge Western Allied supply trains already are loaded and waiting at the border, ready to make the run to Berlin. Railway officials have been alerted "to re-open traffic on the blockaded Helmstedt-Berlin line on Sept 5, these reports said. Helmstedt, on the British-Russian zona! border, is the point where the Russians cut the Western Allies' rail line to Berlin 74 days ago in retaliation against introduction of a new currency, the Deutschmark, in Western Ger many. The main problem of the military governors is to establish the rate of exchange between the Western mark sponsored by the three Western powers and the Eastern mark introduced by Russia. INDIANAPOLIS MILK PRICES UP INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 1. (U.R) Milk and buttermilk prices per quart and cream prices per halfpint jumped anotner cent at most

Indianapolis dairies today. Dairy who registered during the first officials said they were "com-" two days. Registration will conpelled" to boost prices because of tinue until all youths 18 years increased wholesale prices. It was I old through 25 years old are

the third one-cent price hike in the past few weeks. MOVE TO KINMUNDY, ILLINOIS Mr. and Mrs. Tom Brumette and family have moved to Kinmundy, Illinois where Mr. Brumette will serve as coach and teach Civics in the high school there. Mr. Brumette graduated from Indiana State . Teachers College in June.

Cool Weathe

Follows Heat Wave In State INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 1 (UP) The mercury plunged to 46 degrees at Terra Haute early today as many other parts at the stale shivered in unseason ably low temperatures. The below-normal readings came after the Indianapolis weather bureau forecast cooler weather for Indiana for the next five days. "Fair and pleasant" temperatures were on tap until Friday, followed by cooler weather until at least Sunday, Two other cities reported readings of 47 degrees. They were Fort Wayne and Marion. Indianapolis recorded a low of 50 and South Bend a minimum reading of 51. (By United Press) A heat wave seared Southern California today, but the weather bureau said extremely high temperatures probably were over this season for the remainder of the nation. The mercury was edging toward the 90-degree mark in the Midwest and East, but forecasters said the temperature was unlikely to reach last week's highs. The cool air mass that brought relief east of the Mississippi was moving eastward, and somewhat warmer weather was replacing it. Experts said they believed it was too late in the season for another real hot spell to develop over a wide area of the country. They said that conditions in the gulf of Alaska and the j Northern Pacific, the cradle of U. S. weather, were such that lower temperatures would vail. pre- - Illinois Bars Wallace Party From Ballot SPRINGFIELD. 111., Sept. 1 (UP) "Henry Wallace and his I A 1 U til coot V C IJCXl l W SI t UMl I V I Noy ballot by a ruling of the stata electoral board. Democrats rejoiced. The Progressives had been counted on to take a hefty bite from Democratic vote totals, especially in industrial areas. Board members ruled late yesterday that the Wallace-Taylor ticket did not meet election' law requirements. . After five days of hearings,, the electoral board ruled "that the nominating petition filed on behalf of the Progressive party, candidates does not include the signatures of 200 qualified vot-v ers from each of at least 50 counties within the state as required by statute for nomination for said candidates. The petition is therefore insufficient in law as a nominating petition." The decision of the board was unanimous. It was composed of State Supreme Court Justices Walter Gunn of Danville and Francis Wilson of Chicago, and State Auditor Arthur C. Leuder, The Democrats, whose objections were " filed by five war veterans, had affidavits from county clerks claiming that the Wallace party had gotten 200 valid signatures' from only 41 counties; nine short of the required 50. . MORE REGISTER FOR DRAFT Ninety-two more men ered for the draft in the of the draft board in the House yesterday, Paul clerk of the board, said registoffico Court Snow, today; ' That makes a total of 440 men registered. MARRIAGE LICENSE A marriage license was issued yesterday to Grace R. Lewis of Bicknell and Thomas M. Raley of Sullivan. TODAY'S TEMPERATURES ! The unofficial temperatures in t Sullivan today were: ! at 7:30 a.m 64 degrees at noon 80 degrees