Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 50, Number 180, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 11 September 1948 — Page 1

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; BERLIN, Sept. U.A(UP) A eliink in the Soviet blsckade of Berlin appeared, today when the, Bi itish military government ordered a mail train dispatched across the zonal bcrder to the capital tonight. " If the mail train makes the scheduled run from. Hanncvev tn V.ertin it will ho the firat ii-il movement direct to

Berlin si.nce Russia sealed off .The Russians ran a mail zone yesterday. Takin? their thcrities ordered a like run in No one was willing to guess what would happen, or whether the token border crossing was 'a Soviet signal presaging an easing of the blockade. After the-, Moscow and Berlin four-power conferences, rumors persisted that the blockade would be lifted.. The propaganda campaigns ac I companying the Berlin crisis turned,, up new reports of unre in the Russian occupation zone of eastern Germany. They said 5,000 heavily armed Soviet zone "German police had been sent out into the region around Berlin to deal with threatened disorders. At the same time the Soviet prcganda chief in Germany, Col. Serge Tulpanov, called on Germans and "all antiFascists" to join the Soviet Union to prevent nnttlcl. uiar "Those who do not want to become victims of a new war must betrong fighters for democracy," Vie said. . . Meanwhile, both British "and American Wthoritiesirl fA&tt - ordered military and civilian police to take special precautions against the possibility of disorders on sector borders during a scheduled Communist demonstration in the Soviet sector tomorrow. The Communist press of Berlin has publicized the scheduled demonstration as" a "monster" answer to the 300,000 anti-Communists who gathered before the Reichstag in the British zone" this week. The German mail train that crossed the British-Soviet zonal uoruer ytraay entered tne British zone at Vorsfelde, 10 miles north of the Russian blockade point at Helmsteda, British zone railway officials said. The train was passed by British zone German rail officials and proceeded ti the town of Lehrte, near Hannover in the British zonp. G, B. Thomson, chief of rail transport for the British military government, said yesterday's train was not the first. APPOINT SUPERINTENDENT The Board of Trustees of Center Ridge Cemetery with to announce appointment of Ralph Willis, 218 W. Donaldson St. Phone No. 679-L as superintendent of the cemetery to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Oasby Fuson.

Thousands Of Low-Flying Birds Crack Up ,

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!&W YORK, Sept. 11 fUPl A flight of thousands of. little brown birds migrating S.outh from Canada cracked up today against the Empire State Building. For six hours from midnieht against the 102-story world's against ' the 102-story worlds tallest building. While taxi drivers, nightshift workers, policemen, and night club patens gathered and gawked, the huge flight, traveling at about 30 miles per hour; smacked into the side of - the building and tumbled down into a four-block area around Fifth Avenue in mid-Manhattan. Hundreds of the birds., stunned and exhausted, fell .onto the building's ledges and parapets. Their chirps filled the night, attracting the crowd. Other hundreds of the birds were stunned but revived . and flew on after itiwo or three hoars of hopning about the rtreeti and sidewalks at the base of building. the Joseph Pagnaccio, of Brooklyn, was driving along Fifth

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tram frcm Berlin to the British cue from the Soviet. Brash au--the ether direction.; '-' - French PARIS, Sept. 11 (UP) Premier Henri Queuiile neared.the completion today of a slightly right of center government with which he hoped to save France from economic collapse. Members of a socialist: delegation leaving the premier's office at midday said the cabinet list lmoft complete, and probKUJJ wuulu " tUIIIUUIILCU W1U1in. a few hours. Queuiile planned to include representatives of four or five gpoups ranging from Socialists t moderate rightists. Before he x '?V SFr announce -his" cabinet ;;vBe naa some K3t minute .dickering fo do with parties anxious to pluck any plums and at. the same time shun ministries which might prove political liabilities, The National Assembly last night confirmed Queuille's ap-r-cintment to -the premiership by a vote cf 351 to 196. Reliable reports said he would submit his cabinet list to the assembly today. ff Axis Sally" ' Sept. 11 Gillars, the Is Indicted WASHINGTON, (UP) Mildred E.

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alleged "Axis Sally" of the war- fered in accidents. Burns su'ftime Nazi radio, was under for- fered yesterday when her clothma indictment today on a ing caught fire as she was cook- : charge of treason against the in? catsup were fatal to Mrs. United States. Elizabeth Crump. Jerry Lee I A date for arraignment of the Cunningham; son of Mr. and

Maine-born woman probably will be set early next week. At that time, she will be provided with an attorney if she hasn't hired one herself. A Federal grand jury returned the treason indictment against her yesterday. It charged that she tried to undermine the morale of U. S. soldiers by her comments and recordings ever the German radio. Avenue when he was caught a shower of falling birds. "I was driving along about 3 a. m. when my headlights picked up ithese falling objects and I heard these, thuds and thumps on the hood of my car," he said "I stopped and got out, and these birds were fallim? all around me. I couldn't believe it. By the time daylight office workers entered the building. Deoartment of Sanitation and ASPCA employes had cleared most of the dead and iniured birds from the streets. But hundreds lay .or fluttered- weakly about on parapets. As each new office crew armed, the lone ASPCA man left on -duty on the ground floor would receive a call from above that there were birds in distress. He would take the elevator- to the office, crawl out the window, rake in the birds, and descend. Then would come ancall. "Up an down; up and down," he said at mid-m.orning. a job." i ' 'What

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Jackson Township field north of j Wilfred come in today at about 1 12:30 p. m. on the Leon Wallace farm, north , of the' first well in the field on the Harry Seipman farm. ' Oil was struck at a depth cf 2039 feet, after sixteen shots had been, fired between 2021 and 2023 feet. That is the top two feet of 'the pay sand. The well filled up and was that th.2 ficwmg by the time perforating gun was taken out. I A new well is being drilled ,tn the Seipman farm, and has 1 -reached a depth of 1400 feet. Airher Is being drilled on the , Kate Drake farm, a quarter of a j mile west of the Wallace farm. It has been drilled to a depth of 900 feet. j Gecrge Heap, of Farmersburg, is the geologist supervising the drilling operations for the Cline Company of Indianapolis, the company doing the drilling. Arrest Mm For ll 4 : LEBANON, Ind., 'Sept. 11 (UP) Boone County authorities today held Willard M. Burtner, age 26, Kirklin, cn a grand larceny charge after he admitted steol'rig yearly $400 worth of grain in Clinton and ; Boone counties. State Police reported. Burtneraflmrtted to' Stdrer Po-' lire anH , tho Hn-ns rn,mi sheriff that he stole $150 worth of wheat from the Boris Beisel farm, near Frankfort, and $250 worth of wheat and .oats from the Ferdinand Nolte farm, near here. State Police said Burtner also admitted taking quantities of grain from elevators in Frankfojt, Boyleston, Kirklin ' and New Augusta during the past few . weeks. HVO DIE' FROM ACCIDENTS EVANSVILLE, Ind., Ser-t. 11 ' (UP) An 80-year-old woman anc a seven-year-old boy died here yesterday of injuries sufMrs- Lyman Cunningham, died in st- Mary's Hospital of a fractured skull sustained when he fel1 at a playground on the opening day at school. She'll Solo World DIANNA B1XBY checks course of her round-the-world solo flight from San Francisco, Cal., to startlate this month. She'll fly a British Mosquito bomber over a 21,074-milc route. The 26-year-old Santa Paula, Cal., ranch girl will be the first woman to try her luck on such a flight. She figures it will take 70 hours. (International)

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THIS IS YOUR FOOTBALL EDITION WITH PICS

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PfAt0,na.oP'rJ,al introdu,ctiD:'" INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. ll.-(U.R) of the 1948 Golden Arrcw foot-Frank Kimbrell headed for his ball men. In the advertising Mi home today af columns of ttau issue. will be fer dropping efforts to get the found pictures Bf the men ho Dljd t Monal ticket cn th rv n r i n ihla it w't A Avar' I

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story. They Lave , been made j Kimbrell said he was through 0f State George C. Marshall topossible through the cocpera- .fighting Hoosier politicians and day for his refusal" to attend

i on nu supuori 01 your ouui-f van jnercnanis. - : -1 Photos of . the individual! players found herein were made possible by the cooperation of Lee Apple of Lee's (Hunter) Studio and prints may be secured cf JVIr. Apple. t City Family On Evacuee Ship On the General William Weigel, large army transport which i radioed that they would begin leading refugees at daylight on the stricken Camiguin Island, due to the eruption .of the volcano are Mr. and Mrs. Arthur E. ! Paulsen, 428 , East Washington . Street, Sullivan. ' They boarded the transport at Guam for a trip to Manila, P. I., thence to Okinawa and from there to Tokyo after which they will return to " the island of Guam. They will leave Guam for home about October 3rd and expect to arrive in San Francisco, California around October 18th. This will .be their first trip home in three years. Mrs. Paulsen is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Logan of Sullivan. Mr. Paulsen served twenty-one months in the U. S. Army in the Philippines and holds the raiak of a .major in the reserves He- is now employed rwith' "the United States ' Engineering partment .on Guam. DeI MANILA, Sept. 11. (UP) The U. S. Army Transport General jWeigel has arrived off volcanowracked Camiguin Island,- but two more large ships are needed ( immediately to evacuate the last 15,000 inhabitants, reports reaching Manila said today. Radio reports from Arturo Alcaraz, government weather official sent to the island, said that the crater of erupting Mt. Hibok j Hibok still is spewing poisono gases and that it is considered wise to evacuate everyone on the island. Other weather bureau reports said two earthquake tremors of moderate intensity were recorded , today on northeastern Mindanao Island near Camiguin. It was con'sidered probable the .Camiguin eruptions were earthquakes. related to the United States Closes Six Consulates WASHINGTON, Sept. 11. (U.R) The State Department has ordered the closing of six American consulates in foreign countries because of Congressional cuts iri foreign service funds, it was learned today. The consulates will be shut down within the next 30 days. Department officials said more probably will be closed later. Consulates at Sarnia, Canada; Matamoros and Agua Prie, Mexico, will close up by Sept. 3o! Others ordered closed within the next 30 days are at Plymouth, England; Antigua, British' West Indies, and La Ceiba, British Honduras. Report Fighting In East Java BATAVIA, Sept. Jl. (UP) ine news agency Antara reported .today that fighting had broken I out at several places in East Java.

Four days ago Dutch authorities sent the Indonesian government an ultimatum to cease fighting in East Java. It gave the Indonesians 48 hours to restore order or territorial commanders would "take the necessary measures." , Antara said fighting was going on in Dutch occupied areas, and the Dutch had "closed" several towns and put them under strong guard after proclaiming emergency regulations through the area, i - i

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Rough, Says Kimbre!! ! Indiana, ballot. courts. Yesterday, an injunction was issued against the Republicandominated state elect-on board, prohibiting the States' Rights party from a place on the ballot. The injunction was issued after three civil suits were filed and the Democratic and Progressive parties hammered away at the Dixiecrats with charges that their petition to get .on the ballot was full of flaws and evidence of fraud. Kimbrell and his party were cut some $700 he said he gave two Indianapolis taxicab drivers for circulating the petitions. Kimbrell, who borrowed the Republican state headquarters mimeographed .machine to run off forms for petition signatures, said he had been treated pretty well" in Indiana. "I haven't any complaints bout the Hoosiers," he said he departed. "But they sure play their politics rough." aas do Defense Want More Money Ihat at present they can t see now ttneyan operate n only $15,000,000,000. Aeyan operate--next';; The White House announced last night that President Truman tentatively set a Sl5,uuu,uuu,uuu budgetary limit for the Army, Navy and Air Force in the fiscal year beginning next July 1. lnis is about equai to the final budget for this fiscal year. The nation's military leaders said that frankly they don't know how to keep expenses under Mr. Truman's limit 'in view of plans for an expanded draft Army, a 70-group Air Force and the need for keeping the nation prepared in the critical world situation. Defense officials have been , worlcing constantly wun ueiense Secretary James Forrestal on the matter. The combined budget estimates of the three services originally totalled $22,000,000,000, but they managed to pare this down to $17,000,000,000. i President Truman's order to cnop on anotner -.,uuu,uuu,uuu was forwarded to Forrestal "jBudget Director James E. Webb.

BIG FOUR PROBLEM: ITALY COLONIES

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DISPOSITION OF ITALIAN colonies Libya, Eritrea, Italian Somaliland (in black) is under discussion by the Big Four powers, a question which must be decided by Sept. 15 or left to the UN. Russia has proposed returning them to Italy under UN trusteeship. 'Britain wants Somaliland annexed by Ethiopia and .Libya divided into three provinces. France wanta Fezzan, southwestern Libya. (International)

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Four Stand LONDON, Sept. 11 (UP) O C Russia attacked U. a Bis Four foreisn ministers meeting on the Italian colonies hut agreed to participate in a j .arti Mon p Is i . I In a Russian reply to the U. S.-brcadcast by radio Moscow, the Soviet government said the American note of Sept. 8 concerning the Soviet-proposed Big Four meeting was "arbitrary and inadmissable." The Soviet note charged Marshall with violating the Italian peace treaty, "according to which, the question of the fate of the former Italian colonies was to be considered by the Council of Foreign Ministers fore Sept. 15 cf his year." j Despite this, the Soviet note ., . . . obiect-. to

' ' ministers meet next Monday to consider the question. The American note saying that Marshall couldn't attend, but would send a representative, "means that the Secretary of State refused to take part in the Council of Foreign Min isters," the Soviet note charged. Moscow said Soviet Ambass ador , t- - - .

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tne U. s. , government, ' uyjea I to Britain and France, Moscow ai(j. Hurricane Brewing In Atlantic Ocean MIAMI, Fla., Sept. 11. (UP) A tropical storm moving across the Atlantic Ocean northeast of Puerto Rico is increasing in power and will reach hurricane force within a few hours, the Miami weather bureau reported today. k:::z(:;:,; l. i ' , .7. X. which took over the hurricane '...4U TD t T3i - wm.u xiu.u xucx o storm moved westward, reported j strongest winds near the center were 65 to 70 miles per hour, Hurricane force is 75 miles per ' hour and up. . ! The storm was 690 miles east, northeast of Puerto Rico and m0ving northwestward at 16 miles per hour. The advisory cautioned an suipijing neai uie siorm ana in its path.

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LONDON, Sept. 11. (UP) The Western powers have decided to call off all further negotiations with the Russians on the Berlin crisis unless the Soviet Union agrees atonce to lift the blockade, it was learned today. The West will give the Russians one more chance the last chance to stop stalling and act. If they refuse, it was

learned, tfee West will: Foreign Policy Still Bipartisan VandenbergSays By James F. Donovan i United Press Staff Correspondent Russia was on notice today that as far as basic n s. foreisn i - water's edge.

Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg of Moscow to seek another highMichigan, a Republican foreign level meeting at the Kremlin-

atfairs spokesman, re-emphasized the bi-partisan nature of the U. S. policy abroad after a New York City meeting with Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, the GOP nominee. Vandenberg said that it is "of the greatest importance that other nations which do not understand our political system should campaign at home.' "We shall be in internal controversy over many phases of foreign policy," he added. "But we shall not be in controversy over the basic, fact that America is united against aggression and against foes of freedom." 1 GOP Campaign Manager Herbert Brownell said, meanwhile, that in the first week of his Western swing, Dewey will make ma jor speeches in Denver, Colo.; Albuquerque, N. M.; Phoenix, Ariz.; Los Angeles. San Francisco, and Portland, Tacoma and Seattle, WashOther political developments: . ...... naie, An estimated 000 Wallacittes jammed New York's Yankee Stadium last night to "welcome home" Henry A. Wallace from his egg-spattered political tour of the South. Wal lace told the cheering crowd that the hate and violence he found in the South made him determined to spend the rest of his life f i 'it ine fascism in America Proi?rA!. sive party leaders said the rollu - rally

was the largest admission-paying . wu,Ly CLelJt' political rally in history. LnH She,burn TRUMAN President Truman 1 banks Chambers, Fairworked on notes for his Western j RoH' Tfl . ... '- speeches as he cruised on the Po- toJettaynJea" .Bharto- Worthingtomac aboard thP PrPsiHonfiai ' 1"' ..and Bobby . P. Wonders,

Presidential Yacht Williamsburg. SOUTH Both President Truman and Gov. Thomas E. Dewey apparently have decided to postpone their tours of the Deep South until the last minute.

"Grave" Situation May Force Postponement Ot Atomic Spy Hunt Public Hearings

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 (UP) House investigators said today their atomic spy hunt has taken a "new turn" which may force1 postponement of public hearings of the past week. One member said, however the hearings have uncovered a situation "which can be discribed as 'grave'." The forthcoming public hearings have already been postponed once. They were originally scheduled to begin last Tuesday. A subcommittee, headed by Rep. J. Parnell Thomas, R.. N. J., has been investigating alleged Soviet attempts to steal U. S. atomic secrets during the war. Four witnesses who helped in the development of the atom bomb testified secretly before the group yesterday. They were led by Lt. Gen. I Leslie R. Groves, the retired I Army officer who was in charge

1. Issue a joint whitepaper blaming Russia' for the Berlin crisis and accusing her of violat-.. ing the United Nations charter with the blockade; 2. Refer the case' to the United Nations at the assembly meeting opening in Paris Sept. 21, and ask ; world opinion to brand Russia, a violator of the UN pact. The Western powers have decided reluctantly that the Soviet Union does not want a settlement

of the Berlin crisis which would allow the other powers to remain. there. After nearly two months of ii. tit j. i i: : t negotiation the West believes it is getting a runaround from the I Kremlin. I As a result, the Western nations are instructing their envoys ' in probably with Premier Josef btal1 in himself. Jt will be a showdown. ' . j. j Want Action. i The American,- British and French envoys will make plain j that tnere still is a chance for a settlement if the Russians want on'e But tney ai50 will make piain i tiie Berlin blockade rather than more talk. c ' Actually, the West is in a weak; position. Physically, the position of the Western Allies in Berlin can be made untenable if the Russians want to do this. The most the Western powers can threaten is to hale the Soviet Union before the UN something less than an effective threat if the Russians don't want a settle ment. Thus the whole future of the Berlin crisis hangs on Russia's next move. If the Soviet doesnot come to a last minute agreement, negotiations wm be over and fe case will go to tie UN. wJT f ' ,u WUIM. Virtually all hoDe of settlement 'pears to have b-en Vbam m," But the Western Dowers are m mitted to use everv Do-ihl in lomatic avenue in seekin a arP ment I ' . ' - ! - . MARRIAGE LICENSES The i censes following I . Htha ' uv-cu iMUCU 111 J! .1 ... , , hV0 haan ..n.J : Worthington. Louise E. Handy, Terre Haute, and Joseph S. Fish. Terre Haute.; Eva Loralie Mahan. Hymera,! and John Calvin Foutz, Jr. Pimento. V '' - of the Armv's bomb-buildini Mantattan Project during ithe war. He absolutely refused to discuss his testimony. Thomas declined to identify the other (three witnesses. He said, however, that one is a scientist who was called in "as : an expert witness to examine certain documents connected with the atom bomb and this espionage case." Thomas said that a prominent Midwest college professor and a Pennsylvania Communist organizer will appear before a -closed session of the subcommittee on Tuesday. He refused to give an explanation for calling them. The professor is Martin D. Kamen of Washington University, St. Louis. The Communist 'organizer is Steve Nelson of Pittsburgh. Neither has been I named in 'previous testimony.