Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 50, Number 197, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 5 October 1948 — Page 1

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WEATHER 0 WARMER WEDNESDAY Indiana: Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday. Warmer Wednesday. INTERNATIONAL PICTURE SERVICE PRICE THREE CENTS VOL. 50 No. 197 UNITED PRESS SERVICE SULLIVAN DAILY TIMES TUESDAY, OCT. 5, 1948.

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 5. (UP) The weather bureau said today the hurricane which hit Havana probably will strike Key West by noon and sweep into Southern Florida by midaf ternoon. '

If it keeps its present course the hurricane, described as "very severe," will drive through most of the EvergladesOkeechobee area and along the coast at least as far north as Jupiter tonight.

HAVANA, Oct. 5. (UP) Hurricane winds reached 130 miles an hour and spread death, injury and destruction through this Cuban capital city of 500,000 persons early today and then headed for Florida, where they were expected to strike Key West by noon. , :

At least six persons, inciuaing two children, were killed here, and scores were injured. Property destruction and damage ran into unestimated millions of dollars. The casualty tolls were rising as shattered communications slowly were being reestablished. Hospitals reported at 9:30 a. m. that they had at least 60 injured persons, seven or more in serious condition. Other scores received first aid for minor injuries and were released. Passing Havana at about 6 a. m., the hurricane was' headed northnortheast at about 15 miles an hour, with Southern Florida, still not recovered from a $25,000,000 blow a short time ago, directly in its path. Belen College Observatory here reported that winds averaged 100 to 110 miles an hour at the height of the storm, with gusts up to 130 miles. In downtown Havana, police opened fire on small gangs of looters raiding smashed stores. No casualties were reported, however, and the looting was not widespread. C Power was out in much of the . city. Three rivers . flooded their t banks. -Transportation was 'para--' lyzed for several hours. Rubble and fallen trees barred many! streets. Cuba's, radio stations almost without exception were off the air because of antenna collapses and power failures. j President Ramon Grau San Martin, President-Elect Carlos Prio Socarras, and Maj. Gen..Genovevo Perez Damera, Army chief of staff, made a personal inspection of the damage in the heart of the city, and directed plans for relief and rehabilitation. Democrats Plan Box Supper An , old-fashioned box supper and square dance will be held Tuesday, Oct. 12, at the Rush . Snyder barn east of Paxton, Earl ' Engle, president of the Young Democrats announced today. . He said that the supper will be open to" all in the county, and that in addition to a box supper and a square dance, other entertainment will be held. The Young Democrats are sponsoring the program to boost James Noland, of Bloomington, for Congressman from the Seventh District, and Mr. Engle said that Mr. Noland would be at the party. The president said that plans are to have all ladies bring a box lunch, with the lunches to be auctioned' off, and the person buying the box getting the privilege of eating with ' the lady who brought the box. In addition, a prize will be given for the oldest Democrat present, and cake walks will be held during the evening. The Dillingham orchestra will play for the square dance. The barn is located a half mile east of Paxton on the old Dug-ger-Martin road. RALPH RESIGNS FROM DRAFT BOARD Word has been received from the State Headquarters that Arch Ralph has resigned from the Sullivan County draft board. It was announced that a' replacement will be made as soon as possible for Mr. Ralph. RUDOLPH WERNZ SELLS RESIDENCE Rudolph Wernz has sold his residence at 417 West Thompson Street to Mr. and Mrs., Sam Frakes. The Wernz family will move into the late Dr. George Billman residence at 403 West Washington Street, which they purchased. The sale was made through Guy Phillips.

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2 Rail Unions Get Pay Boost From Railroads CHICAGO, Oct. . 5 (UP) The nation's railroads and two unions representing 175,000 operating employs agreed today on a 10-cent hourly wage increase, the second time in hist.cfry that a railroad agreement has been reached on a national scale without government intervention. The railroads and-the Order of Railway Conductors and the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen agreed on the compromise wage boost late yesterday. The unions originally demanded a 25 per cent pay raise. Negotiations between the railroads and the unions began Sept. 14. Last year the same two unions reached an agreement by direct negotiations with the railroads. That contract granted! a 1514 cent hourly raise, which, became the pattern for the en tire industry. Yesterday's agreement was the first break in the third-round wage negotiations between the railroads and 21 unions representing 1,400,000 rail workers. Daniel P. Loomis, who headed the railroads team of negotiators, said bargaining talks were continuing with representatives of three other operating unions representing engineers, enginemen and firemen, and switchmen. These unions demand the difference between the 15 cents awarded them as a second round increase and the 30 per cent they had demanded. Negotiations broke down two weeks ago between the railroads and 16 other unions, representing about 1,000,000 noncperating employes doing shop, maintenance and clerical work. The National Railway Mediation Board has intervened ..and is trying to effect a settlement in separate meetings with the railroads and unions in Chicago. Couples Club To Give Program The Sullivan County Rural Young Married Couples' Club will present the educational part of the program at each of the Farm Bureau meetings of the county in October. The program will consist of a "Town Mfeeting of the Air" on the subject, "What Hope for Man." . A schedule of the Farm Bureau meetings for October is as follows: Haddon Township Wednesday j night, October 6. Fairbanks Township Thursday night, October 7. Gill Township Tuesday night, October 12. Hamilton Township Tuesday night, October 12. , ' Curry Township Wednesday night, October 13. Turman Township Monday night, October 18. EXPERTS WILL STUDY INDIANS WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 (UP) A team of five specialists will spend two weeks on the Navaio and Hopi Indian reservations In New Mexico and Arizona, this month to study medical problems there. The doctors, representing the American Medical Association, will make recommendations to Secretary of Interior J. A. Krug for improving the Indian health program. .

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ghter of Mr. and Mrs. Elza Ben- of Psi Iota xi sorority; Jesson, former residents of Sulli- Lie Engle and Lois Willis of the van, was recently granted a Delta Xheta Xau sorority. Bettv scholarship in college given to a Sinclair and Beatrice Owens of graduate of Tech High School, the Tri Kappa sorority; Tom Indianapolis. The award is given Grayr.on and Jim 'McCoskey . of in hpnor of Barton Bradley, athe Junior chamber of Cornformer Tech student, who gave)rnerce; K B Smith and Jim his life to save another. iMcKeo nf thf T.inns nK. p,i

Miss Benson has entered Minnesota Bible College. the G.O.P. Rallies To Defend ih Congress Record

By Joseph Nolan Rotary Club, told r.i the treUnited Press Staff Correspondent mendous loss that fire causes in , this country every day, both in Republican Congressional lead- property destroyed, and in the ers rallied today to the defense of loss of human lives. He emDhathe 80th Congress which Presl- sized that the cause of the fires dent Truman has denounced has not changed, but that the scornfully as a stooge of big busi- people are more indefferent to

ness. In the first of a series of nationwide radio talks sponsored by the Republican national committee, Senate President Arthur H. Vandenberg asserted that on the strength of its foreign policy record the GOP Congress was "not 'the second worst in history . . . but the best.".,, - . V Sen." RobertlS'.'"TafT"6f Oliio,'f House Leader Charles A. Halleck of Indiana, and Speaker -Joseph W. Martin, Jr., of Massachusetts also will reply to the President's criticism of Congress in radio talks during the next two weeks. Mr. Truman has singled out Taft, Halleck and Martin for attack and probably will "pour it on" again during his campaign swing through Republican strongholds 'of the Northeast. He sets

out tomorrow to campaign in Del- Lorene Pearl; three sons, Malaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey colm cf Xerre Haute. charles of and upstate New York. j the United states Armv and While the President was pre- jerry, at home; three sisters, paring for his four-day trip, Gov. Mrs. Flora Harlow of Brazil, Thomas E. Dewey was to get a Mrs. Kathryn Truckey of Evans-first-hand report on the Berlin ville, and Mrs. Cretie Harrel of crisis from his foreign policy ad- Princeton, and two brothers, viser, John Foster Dulles. A U. S.' Arthur and Roy, both of Hydelegate to the United Nations mera. . . meeting in Paris, Dulles made a The body was taken to the special trip hope to confer with Railsback Funeral Home ' where the GOP Presidential candidate jit will lie in state until the fuin Albany, N. Y. Dewey's next , neral at 2 p. m. Thursday. Burial major political speech is schedul- j will be in the K. of P. Cemetery ed -at Pittsburgh on Monday. at Hymera.

Sullivan County Boy Scouts, Leaders Will Attend Krietenstein Hoe Down

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Rev. Thomas Jennings, Baker Letterman, and Hank Hankins recently attended a Hoe Down similar to the one being planned for this week-end. They were three of seven from Sullivan County who

attended, the others being Charles Johnson and Herschel Pirtle. The Wabash Valley Council cf the Boy Scouts will hold another Hoe Down at Camp Krietenstein on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday of this week. It will be another in a series of meetings planned on an informal basis. It is expected that a large number of local Scouts and Scout leaders will attend the meeting. - . .

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... I. ' Plans to name , a city-wide committee on fire prevention were laid yesterday following an address to the Rotary .: Club by Robert F. Hamm, director of firemen training for the Indiana I rating bureau at Indianapolis. I Meeting with Mr. Hamm. Fire Chief Arnold Ford, " and Frank Orr. business manager, for the Indiana Fire Chiefs Fire Prevention Bureau were Faye Ringer and Lydia Brown, of the Busijness and Professional Women: 1 Vivian Smith and Millie Tavlnr viuw x caux Sims of the City Council; Mrs. Esther Hoke of the elementary sche.ols: Joe Anstead of the Elks Club; Paul Stratton of the .Rotary Club, and J. Allen Cann bell, superintendent of schools." The purpose of the committee is to study the needs for Sullivan in fire prevention and what is needed in the way of additional fire equipment for the citv. ' Mr. Hamm. in his talk to thfe lire than they have previously been. In addition to his talk to the Rotary Club, Mr. Hamm made talks before a convocation of grade school pupils at the Community Gym and to the high school pupils at a high schoo1 1 assembly. He was accompanied 'by Chief Ford and Mr. Qrr. '. Squire Smith lJ lj IJmmI 1185 Al ilOmC Squire Otis Smith, age 56. died at 1:30 o'clock.this morning at his home on Sullivan, R.. 3. He was employed at the Baker mine and had worked Monday. He'was a veteran of World War I. He is survived hv tVip uif Snavely, Jack Jewett, Charles

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; ' ; Mrs. Mary Snyder and Mrs. Mazie It has been planned on the Booker, both oj Sullivan, basis of the meetings .recently The body was taken from the held at Lake Geneva and willjNewkirk Funeral Home in Pleasgive those attending a rich ex- j antville to the residence late perience in scouting. ; today. Funeral services will be The program will begin with held at 2 o'clock Thursday afregistration at 5 p. m. Friday ternoon at the Pentecostal

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nasi cresiaem R;'V i fcrfiifivisi -Wife- - - -3 m 5. 1 A past president of the Lions international will speak to the members of the Sullivan Lions fclirb at the meeting of the club fo be held Thursday evening at Ijhe Methodist church annex. The meeting will begin "at 7 p. m. ! Edward H. 'Paine, of Michigan City, is the speaker. He was fleeted as president of the Lions International in July, 1942, at a . meeting of the group in Toronto, Canada. He had previously been elected as third vicepresident, and first vice-president. t The Sullivan Lions have invited members .of surrounding Lions Clubs to be present at the meeting to hear the former president, and Bill Beach, president of the club, said that T. I)erry Wesley, of Bicknell, district governor for the Lions Club, will also be present at the meeting. In addition, the members are invited to bring their wives to the meeting, f Golden Darts Cose To Bicknell ? . The Sullivan Golden Darts lost A4Jta 12. decision to the Bicknell Bullpups at Sportland Field last night when the visitors scored in the last two minutes of the game to overcome a Dart lead. Bicknell went into an early lead in the first quarter on a. 50yard run and converted the point on a short pass. The Darts came back in the second period to tie the game up. They staged a long march down the field and finally scored on an 8-yard pass to Bob Banks in the end zone, but the try for point was no good, and Bicknell led 7 to 6 as the half ended. The Darts went into the lead in the third quarter on another pass to Bob Banks, this one good for 20 yards, but the try for point again was no good. Bicknell got their final touchdown with two minutes of play remaining on a screen pass, and again they made the point to make the final score 14 to 12. Sullivan line-up: Ends Kirschler, Banks, Knotts, Gott. Tackles Wright, Phillips, Hensley. Guards Haynes, Boston, Smith. Center Hines. Backs Harris, Morgan, Brown, Oldham, Theal, Gray, Neal. Tonight at Sportland Field, the Freshman-Sophomore team will play a similar team from Vincennes. Miss Roberta Owens Dies Near Dugger Miss Roberta Hazel Owens, age 35, died at midnight last night at her home a mile and a half west of Dugger. She was born on Oct. 25,. 1912, and had been an invalid most of her life. She was a member of the Pentecostal Church in Sullivan. She is survived by the father, John Owens; three brothers, Albert Owens and Donald Owens, both of Terre Haute, and John Owens, Jr., of Ft. Knox, Ky. a : half-brother, Coleman Boling of ! Michigan, and four sisters. Mrs. I Reba Boss and Mrs. Rosemary Bennett, both of Indianapolis, and Church with the Rev. Jake Smith officiating. Burial will be m the Dugger Cemetery.

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nnounce Join Firm Of Hays And Hays Two lawyers, both graduate? of the Indiana University . School of Law, have" joined the law firm of Hays & Hays. Mr. Leslie E. Howell of Wanatah has his residence in Indianapolis, where the firm .established an office in January this year, and Mr. Gar za Baldwin Jr., formerly of Vincennes, is at bumvan. Mr. Howell, who was" a practicing Certified Public Accountant for five years in Indiana and Illinois before the war, entered law school at Bloomington after his return from overseas service, and was graduated in June. 1948. He practiced law in the firm of Jacob, Jones and Brown in Portland, Oregon until he returned to Indiana and accepted his .present position. He attended the School of Business Administration at Indiana University and received his earlier education in the public schools at Wanatah. For three years he taught accounting at the Indiana University School of Business. Mr. Howell is a member of Phi Delta Phi, legal J fraternity, and is a Thirty Sec ond Degree Mason and a Shriner., Mr. Baldwin was graduated from law school at the Bloomington Campus with the Doctor of Jurisprudence degree and with High Distinction in June. He" was Editor in -Chief of- the Indiana Law Journal during the last year and received the Bureau of National Affairs Award in recognition of the most satisfactory scholastic progress in the field of law by a law school senior. He is a member of Phi Delta Phi, a legal fraternity, and Order of the Coif, legal scholastic honorary fraternity. His college fraternity is Kappa Sigma. He is also a Masm and a member of the Christian church. During the war Mr. Baldwin served as a naval aviation pilot with the rank of Lieutenant (J.G.), having enlisted in the Navy in 1942. Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin have moved to Sullivan and will live at 324 South Court Street. Mrs. Baldwin was formerly Jean Skinner .of Shepherdstown, West Virginia. She is a graduate of Shepards College and before her marriage was a member of the faculty at the Wright Denny School at Charleston, West Virginia. The Baldwins have one daughter, Deborah Allen, who was born in June. FILE COMPLAINT TO QUIET TITLE Raymond JSkidmore et al have filed a complaint to quiet title against John H. Murray et al in the Sullivan Circuit Court.

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Women Beating High Clothing Prices Like Grandma Did, they Sew At Home CHICAGO, Oct. 5 (UP) i He said a picture of a smart High prices are forcing more dress in a catalogue often will

women to do as their grandmothers did and make their own clothes, a mail order executive said today. James N. Dow, head of Sears,

itoeDucK ana company s yara-1' better looking and more caregoods and pattern-buying de- jfully made at much less expartment, said that many wo- j oense Dv sewine at home." Dow

men are outfitting themselves with the New Look in the oldfashioned way. Dow said industry-wide sales figures show more than 100 an increase of per cent in pattern sales, since before the war. ! At least 95 tier cent of all American housewives do some home sewing, he said. "A clever woman nowadays won't just look with longing at a dress in the window she can't afford," he said. She will study it from every angle,, he said, noting the seams and the styling and the fabric. Then, she will go home and run nnp nn nn th spwinv mnnhinn '. for much less than the cost of 'the original article, Dow said.

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PARIS, Oct. 5 (UP) The United Nations Security Council, over the bitter objections of Russia, voted today by 3 to 2 to give a full public airing to the Berlin dispute. Soviet Delegate Andrei Vishinsky immediately announced that Russia will boycott the Council's debate on the issue. . .. Taking the floor immediately after the vote by which ;he Council agreed to place the Berlin crisis between jthe Western powers and Russia on its agenda, Vishmsky said: "The Soviet delegation wishes to state that it will not

participate in the deliberations Hog Prices Skid Again; Expect Meat Price Drop (By United Press) Hog prices skidded again today amid indications that retail meat prices soon might drop. . Early hog prices at the midwestern livestock centers were down 75 cents to $1.50 per hundred pounds. The new decline followed a drop of $1 to $2.25 yesterday and $2 to $3.50 last week; Livestock experts said the sharp drop was due principally to the

heavy increase in the marketing , nuilski immediately made an anof spring pigs. Hog receipts at the j nouncement similar to Vishin12 major markets today totaled I sky's. The Ukraine had been the 56.000. comnared with 47.000 lastlonlv nation which voted with

Tuesday. Wholesale pork prices in New York, the nation's primary wholesale market, were one to two cents lower per pound. Some retail stores already were cutting their prices, but the American Meat Institute warned that price reductions at the retail level cotrld not be put into effect immediately. "It takes a while for adjust-j ments to wholesale prices to be reflected in the retail market," the Institute said. Nevertheless, one large grocery chain in New York City today put into effect price reductions ranging from 2 to 18 cents a pound on some 50 meat' items. Boneless round of beef was cut from 97 to 79 cents a pound for the biggest slash. Meanwhile, there were more predictions that the nation's economy as a whole has reached a general levelling-off period. Walter E. Hoadly, Jr., economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, said business probably will be good for the rest of the year and much of 1949. HOBART CREIGHTON'S MOTHER DIES WARSAW, Ind., Oct. 5 (UP) Mrs. William H.. Creighton, mother of Hobart Creighton, the Republican nominee for Governor of Indiana, died today in a hospital. Mrs. Creighton had been in the hospital since she fell and suffered a hip fracture some time ago. stimulate mail-order sales of a pattern and material that can be used to duplicate the dress home. ' at "Women have discovered they can have more clothes often said. The biggesi increase is home sewing, Dow said, has been in the big cities. "The city women were slower to take it up, because tsy r-'e used to buying in 12 large shopping centers," he said. "But now there are long waiting lists of women waiting to get in the dressmaking classes in some of our retail stores. We've been swamped with applications from city women who want to learn to sew." Dow said women in rural areas are quicker to pick up a new style trend than they used to be. He said the pattern and , mail-order catalogues "probably have been no small influence."

of the Security council. 'It was not lmmeuiaicy clear, however, whether Vishinsky actually would walk out of the Council meetings, as Soviet Dele- -gate Andrei Gromyko did in 1946 on the Iranian issue,' or would remain in the sessions but refuse to take part in the discussions. Questioned ' after adjournment, as to whether he would attend tomorrow's Council session or participate in future Council debates, Vishinsky said jovially: . "That will depend upon my mood." "But you have not left the United Nations?" I "My statement is clear on that ! point," the Soviet deputy foreign minister replied. "We are not -leaving the United Nations. We are going to refrain from participating in the Berlin case only." Votes With Russia. Ukrainian Delegate Dmitri MaRussia against placing the Berlin question on the agenda. Both Vishinsky and Manuilski . remained in their seats after making their announcements, and Argentine Delegate Juan Bramu lia, chairman of the Council, immediately adjourned the session until tomorrow morning. ' , - .'.Vishinsky. had foreshadowed .the. Russian boycott of Council "discussions of the Berlin question in his fiery speech yesterday when he told the Council that consideration would be a violation of international agreements. Outside the chamber, Vishinsky brushed off queries from reporters as to whether he and Manuilski would attend tomorrow's session by saying: "You will see that tomorrow." Vote Against Russia. The Security Council lineup of nations against the Soviet Union and the Ukraine was China, Britain, the United States, France, Syria, Argentina, Canada, Belgium and Colombia in short, all the Council members except Russia and its satellite. Vishinsky had been the princi'pal speaker today just as he was yesterday. In a speech m somewhat calmer tones than his pyrotechnics of yesterday, he accused the U. S., Britain and France of seeking to kill the Big Four Foreign Ministers Council, and re- ; peated other charges he had made previously. Okinawa Typhoon Causes Damage TOKYO, Oct. 5. (UP) A typhoon that struck Okinawa late last night caused at least $10,000,000 damage to installations -and airfields loaded with B-29's and the newest type fighter squadrons, fleet reports indicated today. First reports said there were no casualties, although fears were ex pressed earlier for the safety of 55 dependent families on the island. Allied headquarters announced at 6 p. m. (Tokyo time) that communications with Okinawa were restored. There was no detailed description of the damage. Terse Army reports said a "close inspection revealed that some ware houses were damaged severely r and that Piers B and C received some damage." Earlier, reports said the storm ripped out virtually all communications on the island base, destroyed large warehouses and damaged a military hospital, theater and dependent housing area.; Two LST cargo ships, a small military government freighter, a Japanese freighter and many smaller craft were driven aground. ' Other craft were reported loose in JNana narbor.