Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 50, Number 213, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 27 October 1948 — Page 1
WEATHER Vole Democratic November 2 CONTINUED MILD Indiana: Fair tonight, Thursday nartlv cloudy. Continued mild. VOL. 50 No. 213 UNITED PRESS SERVICE SULLIVAN DAILY TIMES WEDNESDAY, Oct. 27, 1948. INTERNATIONAL PICTURE SERVICE PRICE THREE CENTS
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GOP.. Victory,! EndQfientl Truman Tells I
HARTFORD, Conn., Oct,
predicted today that if the Republicans win the November election they will kill rent controls next March, " It will mean an immediate rent increase of 20 per cent or more, he said. He charged that the real estate lobby '.'which always has found it easy to get what it wants from Republican Congressional leaders," is prepared to spend about
$250,000 to see that rent controls aren't extended beyond the
present March expiration date
. "If the same Republicans who ran the 80th Congress are back there next spring, they'll kill rent control just exactly
as this lobby wants them to, "This real estate lobby predicts that, if it is successful in killing rent control in March, rents will not be increased more than 20 per cent ... "I don't have a doubt in the world that rents would be that high, or maybe even higher, if the Republican party should win this election." Speaking in Hartford alongside Chester Bowles, Democratic candidate for Governor and former Federal Price Administrator, Mr. Truman said it was the GOPcontrolled 80th Congress which killed price controls. "They used to boast about it," he said, "but they've, been awfully quiet about it recently, with an election coming up. " "If the Republican party wins this election, you'll have to expect more of the same bad medicine from them medicine to pep up special privilege medicine to lull you to sleep while they shake out your pockets,." Talks To Bowles. The President said that hie had talked with Bowles about prices on their way from Springfield to Hartford, and "if anybody, in the country knows what soaring pric- . es mean and what high prices will Tdo'to ithe, country, I thiVik it is Chester Bowles." . The - Presidential party left Hartford for Springfield, Worcester and Framingham, Mass., and a major speech at Boston tonight. Earlier, the President charged that Gov. Thomas E. Dewey is "on both sides of every question." The Roosevelt-Truman ticket captured Massachusetts' 16 elec toral votes in 1944 by a margin of 114,946 votes out of litle more than 2,000,000 cast. Public opinion polls don't show the state to be a breeze for any one. - But Mr. Truman doesn t put much credence in polls. He told a Cleveland audience last night that predictions of a GOP victory were a deliberatte attempt to lull voters into staying home on election day. Death Takes William B. Graves William R. Graves of 541 South Rybolt Street, Indianapolis, formerly of Linton, died last night at his home. He was the husband of Kathryn Graves who survives. The body was taken to the Shirley Brothers Funeral Home, 2002 West Michigan Street, where friends may call. Services will be held Friday afternoon at 1:30 at the chapel. Burial will be in the Crown Hill Cemetery. TO ATTEND CONVENTION Mrs. Emma Kennedy,, city librarian, left today for Indianapolis to attend the annual convention of the Indiana Library Association cf which she is secretary. Herman B Wells, president of Indiana University, will . be the guest speaker at the dinner meeting Thursday evening. His topic is "Our Cultural Stake in Germany." Ben H. Riker, manager of the Book Department of L. S. Ayres, and author of the recent publication, "Pony Wagon Town," will address the convention on "Pony Carts and Libraries." William Heyliger. author and editor, will speak Friday night on "Living and Writing." TO ATTEND FUNERAL IN A BODY Sullivan Lodge, 263, F. & A. M. Called meeting Saturday at 1:00 p. m. for funeral of Brother William A. Brodie.All members urged to attend. Alvin "Al" Spainhour, W. M., Russell In- . body, Sec.
onfroii afioii 27. (UP) President Truman the President said Ira Haymaker Predicts Win For Schricker By William A. Drake United Press Staff Correspondent
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 27.-U.R)lthe aacit approval of the 7th
Ira Haymaker, Democratic state cnairman, preaicieu iuuay uiai. Henry Schricker would be elected Governor by a 175,000 vote majority. He said President Truman wculd carry the state by 25,000 votes. Republican State Chairman Clark Springer likewise predicted victory for GOP Gubernatorial Nominee Hobart Creighton and Gov. Thomas E. Dewey. But he declined to speculate in figures. "They will win by an overwhelming majority," he said. Haymaker said an , unusually large vote would contribute to the Democratic victory. He said Schricker and the enfire state ticket would be swept into office, returning the statehouse to Democratic control. "Traditionally, the other state candidates trail the Governor," Haymaker said. "But I don't think it, will be by more than 25,000 votes." Springer said he would make a specific prediction in figures later. "We've had enough trouble overcoming confidence already" he said. "I'm afraid my estimates would cause more trouble." Springer said the GOP victory would be complete to the last man on the state ticket, i, With only five more days re maining in the campaign, both chairmen said they were now con cerned with getting out the vote. "Such matters as who's going to drive the voters to the polls and things like that," said one. Today's Markets INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 27. (U.R) Hogs 9,000; fairly active on barrows and gilts, steady to 25c higher: bulk good and choice 180-240 lbs., $25.75 $26.00, practical top $26.00, one deck $26.15; good and choice 250-300 lbs., $25.50 $25.75; 300 lbs. and above $25.00 $25.25, a few $25.50; 160180 lbs., $25.25 $25.75; 1Q0-160 lbs., $20.50 $24.50; sows strong to 50c higher, early sales largely $21.50 $23.50, few choice lights $24.00, load outstanding 339 lbs., $24.50. Cattle 900, calves 500; yearlings and heifers moderately active, fully steady; bulk medium to good 750-110 lbs. steers and yearlings $25.00 $28.50; cows moderately active, steady to weak, good beef cows $19.00 $20.00, odd head $21.50; vealers slow, mostly 50c lower, good and choice $31.50 $34.00. Sheep 1,500; fat lambs active, strong to 50c higher, good and choice $24.50 $25.00, medium to good $22.00 $24.00; load mostly good 97 lb.- fed Texas yearlings No. 1 and fall shorn pelts steady at $21.50; slaughter ewes steady, good and choice $7.00 $8.50. INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 27. (U.R) Cash grain: Wheat: weak; receipts 1 car; No. 1 red $2.20; No. 1 hard $2.20; No. 2 red $2.19; No. 2 hard $2.19. Corn: firm; receipts 51 cars; No. 2 yellow $1.31; No. 3 yellow $1.29; No. 2 white $1.33; No. 3 white $1.31. Oats: firm; receipts 1 car; No. 2 white 77c; No. 2 red 77c. Soybeans: weak; receipts 49 cars. $2.45 carload lots F-O-B In diana and Illinois points.
Noland Charges Double-Talk On
Education Aid JlLLETTSVILLE, Ind., Oct. 27 James E: Noland, Democratic nominee for Congress from the 7th, District charged , Monday that the record of Representa tive Gerald Landis on Federal Aid to Education was a series of glpring contradictions. .' Speaking at a Democratic rally ai faieusvuie, iNQiana saia that the Republican Congressman had . campaigned vigorously . on the issue of Federal . Aid . to schools and then allowed it tc be . scuttled in committee. "As ranking member of the House Committee on Education and Labor the Republican representative was in a position to promote aid for education, but he chose to follow the lead -.of the reactonary 80th Congress placing politics before the welfare of the children of our na tion." Noland stated that 'in spite of overwhelming support from edu cators and civic groups and in spite of strong Senate approval, the bill was killed in the House Labor Committee. "Surelv." he asserted, "this was done with District Congressman who has assured us he is the ranking member of this House Commit tee." "The United .States, if it is to continue to occupy a crucial role in the 'history of theworld, must never sell short it investment in the young people of the nation who are without auerft.ion its greatest asset," he said. "The economic and moral foundations f the future can be ' only as firm and sure as the education of the youth of the country." ."The American school is our first bulwark against the, threats of totalitarianism. The1 records of Selective Service during World War II show that we have fallen far shprt of suitable standard of elementarjf and secondary education." '' Mr. Noland concluded, "I fail to see how my opponent can j cite the menace of educational inadequacy on the one hand, 'and then scuttle the bill he purports to champion on the other.' Commandery To Be Insoected Friday The Sullivan Commandery No. 54 Knights Templar will be inspected and graded in the proficiency of the exemplification .of the Order of the Temple Friday evening, Oct. 29 by Paul G. Smiley, Eminent Grand Warden of the Indiana Grand Commandery line. Buryl Thomas Norris will be the candidate for the evening. , The following will serve as officers for the local uniformed body of . Templars: Joseph S. Miller, C; L. Baker Letterman G: Frank M. Bell, CG; Joseph McCoskey, treasurer; John M. Sweeney, recorder; George W iGore, SW; Charles Collins, JW: Hal R. McFarland, Prel; C.Clyde Cooksey, St. B; Frank McCombs, Sw. B; Joseph O. Whalen, War; Harry W. Richey, Gd. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Mr. and Mrs. Ralph C. Bedwell of Carlisle, R. 2, . announce the arrival of a daughter born October 20th at the FreemanI Greene County Hospital. The little Miss has been named Sara Frances. Mrs, Bedwell is the former Frances Adams.
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Richard Filer Condition Same The condition .of Richard Fifer, age 26, who was injured in an accident at the Sullivan Laun
dry, remains about the same, Mary Sherman Hospital attend ants said today. He was injured when he was struck by a piece of metal fr.om aa extractor while working alone in the back room of the laundry yesterday afternoon. According to Jack Smith, owner of the laundry, Fifer was standing about ten feet from the extractor at the time of the accident. Mr. Smith said that the extractor, which operates by centrifugal force, was .operating at the time, and the metal bands that hold the inside basin together came apart at the weld ing.- The bands caught in the iron outside casing and tore it up, with a piece of the casing sriking Fifer in the head. The extractor was completely wrecked, and the loss from the machine was estimated at $1,200, Mr. Smith said. Edwin Bailey Dies AI Linton Edwin Bailey, age 77, wellknown resident of the Dodd Bridge community,, died of a stroke at the Freeman-Greene County Hospital in Linton Tuesday afternoon at 4:45 o'clock. Mr. Bailey had operated a grocery store at Dodd Bridge for the past twenty years. He was born in Daviess County in 1'871 the son of Blaekwell and Nancy Bailey. Surviving are the wife. Oda: a brother, Frank A. Bailey of Linton, and one half brother, Carl Bailey .of Colorado. The body was taken to the Welch and Cornett Funeral Home in Linton where it will lie in state. Funeral services will be conducted Thursday after noon at 2 o'clock at the funeral home with the Rev.- Ralph
Walters of- Prairie.--Ci'sekof4tmces wm "be held-' at- the
dating assisted by Bro. Waldo Hoar of Linton. Burial will be made in Fairview Cemetery at Linton with the Jasonville Masonic Lodge, - of which he was a membery in charge of gravev services. Public Service Has Mine Display A display used by the Public Service Corporation of Indiana at the recent Mine Display held at Bicknell has been placed in the local office of the company on North Court Street. The theme of the display is that in the past ten years the Public Service Corporation has increased the use of Indiana coal "by 106 per cent and at the same time has increased the output of electricity by 191 per cent. In the display are a number of pictures of the different mines which the PSC services in this area, and there are pic tures of some of the county mines with a number of county men shown with apparatus used in the mines. BROWN-McCONNELL VOWS READ Mrs. Cora Brown of Indiana Avenue wishes to announce the marriage of her daughter, Lois, to Edgar W. McConnell, son. of Mrs. Lou McConnell of Carlisle. The couple were united in marriage October 9th in a single ring ceremony at the Sullivan Baptist Church with the Rev. R. E. Pavy officiating. Mrs. , Harriet Ford of Sullivan was matron of honor and James Roberts of Carlisle, nephew of. the bridegroom, was best man. A program of bridal music was played by Mrs. Virgil Baldwin. A reception was held fallowing the ceremony. The bride is a graduate ' of the Sullivan High School and has been employed the past few years; as bookkeeper at the Johnson Feed and Supply Com pany. - The bridegroom is a graduate of the Carlisle High School and attended the Memphis Business College of Memphis, Tenn. At the present time he is employed as salesman for O. J. Steffy and Son of Carlisle. Mr. and Mrs. McConnell left ' i .1 . cepuon tor a trip inrougn tne Smoky Mountains. They will make their home iii Carlisle
Mrs. Edith Asdell
Dies Today At
Family Home , Mrs. Edith M. Asdell, age 68. wife of W. W. Asdell," long a prominent Sullivan merchant, died today at the family home Sjje had been ill for some time iShe was a life-long resident of Sullivan, and was the daughter , of Samuel B. 'and Fythf AHers. She was united in marriage1 to Mr. Asdell. on Aug. 13 1889. She attended the Sullivar High School. Mrs. Asdell was f member of the First Christian Church, a Past Matron of the Syllivan .Eastern Star, and a member of the Needlecraft club ,5he is survived. by the husband; a daughter, Mrs. C. R Thudium of Mattoon, 111.; a brother, G. B. Akers of Sullivan' three grandchildren and . one great-granddaughter. '"The body was taken to the Rpllsback Funeral Home where funeral arrangements are pending. : William A. Brodie Dies At Home William A. Brodie, age 79, died at his home four miles southeast of Sullivan .this morn ing at 4 o'clock. He was a life long resident of Sullivan County, and was a member of the Sullivan Masonic Lodge. . He ' is survived by-the wife, 0ta May Brodie; a son, Max Brodie of California: a daughter, Mrs. Mary Willis of Sulli van, R. 3; five grandchildren; a foster son, Bruce Grubaugh of California, and a sister, Mrs. Viola Willis of. Sullivan. ; The body was taken to the Billman Funeralral . Home and will be returned to the home of the daughter Thursday; Funeral Billman Funeral Home Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock with burial in Center Ridge Cemetery. fijfend Princeton Democratic Rally Mrs. Charles Bedwell, Miss Telia Haines, and Mrs. Essie Fuller attended a Democratic rally in Princeton last night at which Former Governor Paul V. McNutt and Jam's Poland were the principal speakers. The rally was held in the Princeton. Armory and the crowd was estimated at about 600 persons, the capacity of the armory. Those attending reported that Noland received a rousing ovation from the large crowd attending. POTTS-ASHCRAFT VOW'S HEARD In a candlelight ceremony performed at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil W. Potts of Youngstown, Indiana, Miss Nina Mae Potts became the bride of Harry Ashcraft, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Ashcraft of Shelburn, on October 16th. The vows of the double ring ceremony were read by the Rev. Paul Lewis, minister of the Youngstown Church. The bride wore a blue twopiece street length dress with matching accessories. Her corsage was of red roses. The bride's sister, Mrs. Gerald M. Redicks, was her only attendant. She wore a pink two-piece street length dress with matching accessories and her corsage was of pink roses. Gerald Ml Redicks, brother-in-law of the bride, was best man. A reception was held following the ceremony for close friends and relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Ashcraft left immediately for a short honeymoon through the South. They will be at home to their friends in Shel burn. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS Mr. and Mrs. Joe Storey of Dugger are the parents of a .daughter, Molinda Kay, born I October 24th at the Mary Sher man nospnai. rMr. and Mrs. Norman Buck ingham oi bneiburn announce the arrival of a son, Robert Allen, born October 27th at the Mary Sherman Hospital.
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ay Form Immediate War Not Likely, WASHINGTON, Oct. 27. (UP) President Truman's Chief pf Staff declared today that the world faces "an acute danger of war at any time" but that he Joes not believe it will come "in the near future." . The statement was made by Fleet Adm. William D. Leahy in. a Navy Day address prepared for delivery before an Indianapolis audience. '..-, Without referring directly to Russia, Leahy said that aggression In form of "revolution and eco nomic chaos conducted from within by a minority directed from without" could break out in many countries as "part of a ruthless and diabolical plan for ulti mate barbarian domination of the world." It has already happened in Berlin and Czechoslovakia, he said, and added: There is now an acute danger of war at any time. I personally do not think it is coming to us in the near future." Earlier, another high-ranking officer said the Navy has "every reason to believe" that Russia is building up a submarine fleet "never before equalled in the history of naval forces." ATTEND CONVENTION Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Riggs, Mrs. A. S.JReed, Mrs. Thomas Lippeatt,' Mrs. - Ralph Adams, Miss Zola Sinclair and Miss Teresa Wolfe attended the Second District Federation of Clubs con vention held at . Bloomington, Indiana, Oct. 26. The morning session was given over to reports of county presidents and chairmen of the district. Following the luncheon the Exchange Students from Mexico spoke and Mrs. Mary Reed Able, formerly of Sullivan, sang a . group of songs. In the afternoon Mrs. Elmer Dolzall, third vice-president, and Mrs. Coakley C. Cole, president of the I.F.C., made splendid reports. DUGGER PLAYS BOYS SCHOOL TONIGHT The Dugger. Bulldogs will close their 1948 football season tonight when they play the Indiana Boys School from Plainfield. The Bulldogs will be seeking their eighth straight' victory of the season. They lost their opener to Brazil. COURT FINDS FOR PLAINTIFF The Sullivan Circuit Court found in favor of .the plaintiff in a suit filed by the Citizen's National Bank of Linton against Samuel Reeve on a complaint on a note. Kidnaped in Greece KENNETH MATTHEWS CORRESPONDENT in Greece for the British Broadcasting Company, Kenneth Matthews (above) was kidnaped in Peloponnesus on October 11. He may meet the same fate as that of American correspondent George Polk, according to a broadcast over the Greek guerrilla station of General Markos. (International).
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PARIS, Oct. 27. (UP) The Big Three Western foreign ministers today indirectly invited Russia to accept, out-. side the 'United Nations, the formula for settlement of-the Berlin crisis which Soviet UN Delegate Andrei Vishinsky ve-, toed Monday. . . In an unusual communique issued after a conference of more than an hour at the French Foreign Office the Western diplomats announced they were willing to "be guided by the principles" embodied in the Security Council resolution" which Vishinsky rejected. I U. S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall, British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, and French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman issued the communique which seemed to amount to an invitation to Russia to reconsider.
Two Pass County Men Army Exam One-third of the men from six counties examined this month for selective service passed the mental and physical examinations given them at tht joint induction center at the Army recruiting station in the Federal Building, it was announced yesterday. Sixty-six men were examined and 22 passed. One-half of those sent from Parke County passed the examinations, four-fifths of those from Vigo County, one-third of those from Sullivan County, one-seventh cf those from Clay County, one-eighth of those from Vermillion County and none from Putnam County. The figures are: County Examined 7 4 5 I 6 8 36 66 Passed 1 2 0 2 - 1 16 22 Clay Parke Putnam Sullivan Vermillion Vigo Totals One reason advanced for the low percentage was the fact that many of the men examined, the .older ones in the draft age, were rejected in World War II. As a result it is estimated that men not examined for the wartime draft will be reached in many counties during the December examinations. 4-H National Week Theme Set "Creating Better Homes Today For a More Responsible Citizenship Tomorrow" is the theme of National 4-H Achievement Week to be held November 1 through November 7. Sullivan County will observe National Achievement Week by having their County Achievement program, Monday, November 1, in the Sullivan High Schoo Auditorium at 7:30 p. m. The Sullivan County 4-H enrollment for 1948 was approximately eight hundred boys and girls, representing every township in the county. Five hundred and eighty-five boys and girls completed their projects. These will be honored at the county program. Winners will be announced who receive trips to State Junior Leadershin Training School, State 4-H Club Round-Up, the Chicago International Trip, and the C. & E. I. Chicago trip. To carry on the 1948 4-H Club program in Sullivan County, there were twenty-one adult leaders and fifty junior leaders. The 1948 National 4-H Club enrollment was 1,800,000 members with 200,000 local leaders. In Indiana there are 66 000 4-H Club members with' 9,000 adult and iunior leaders. Sullivan County is expecting a large group .of 4-H Club mem bers and their parents at the Sullivan High School Auditorium, Monday night, Nov. 1, at 7:30 p. m. HOSPITAL NOTES Admitted Oct. 25: Ben Moses Jr. of Shelburn; O. T. Eledsoe of East Jackson Street. Admitted Oct. 26: Mrs. Candice Carbin of Sullivan, R. 2; Hazel Holmes of Fairbanks. Dismissed Oct. 25: Mrs. J. Wernz of West Washington Street. Dismissed Oct. 26: Clyde Weir of Carlisle; James L. Hayhurst of Shelburn, R. 2.
I The compromise proposal which Vishinsky vetoed would have called upon Russia to lift immediately its more than four-months-old surface blockade of the Western sectors of Berlin. It would have established a single Sovietbacked currency in Berlin, and would have called for a Big Four Council of Foreign Ministers meeting on German problems late in November. There has been no doubt thnt the Western powers have hoped that a solution might be reached along these general lines outside the UN despite Vishinsky's veto. It was felt that the Russian veto was motivated in part by the fact' that the Soviet Union took the firm position that the UN has no proper jurisdiction in the Berlin question. Dr. Philip Jessup, an American delegate to the UN, made plain in a speech just before Vishinsky's veto was cast Monday that the Western powers still would be willing to accept the terms of the compromise proposal as a basis for settlement. Direct Bid. The communique issued today appeared to be a direct bid for a Russian response to this suggesMarshall, Bevin and Schuman, the complainants who took the case against Russia in the Berlin crisis before the UN, issued their communique after a meeting in which they discussed not only the Berlin question but also the decision oi' the Western European Union powers to proceed with a North Atlantic security pact irt which the United States and Can-, ada would join. The pact, one of the most historic international developments of modern times, was started officially yesterday by the five foreign ministers of the Western union powers at the end of .their third consultative conference. The United States and Canada, who are not members of the Western European Union of Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, were not present at the conference. But Secretary of State Marshall received a detailed report on the Western union decisions at a private meeting with Bevin at the American embassy this morning. The North Atlanticpact, when completed, will for the first time In history throw the enormous Dolitical. economic and military might of the United States directly into the so-called struggle for balance of power in Europe. Franklin Ashba Struck By Car Franklin J."e Ashba, three-vear-old son of Mr. and Mrs. James Ashba, of 127 South Holloway Street, was seriously injured about 5:45 last night wTien he was struck by an automobile driven by Jacob Thompson. - According to City Policeman George Barrick, who investigated. Mr. Thompson said that the Ashba child suddenly ran in front of the vehicle and was hit. .The boy was taken to the Mary Sherman Hospital. . It was reported today that the boy was still in a critical condition in the hospital. He suffered a skull fracture and is still uri- ! conscious. COURT ORDERS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE The Sullivan Circuit Court found in favor of the plaintiff in a suit filed seeking permission to foreclose a mortgage. The suit was filed by the Citizen's National Bank of Lnton aganst Samuel Reeve and LaVern Reeve.