Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 50, Number 239, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 2 December 1948 — Page 1

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BERLIN, Dec. 2. (UP) Soviet Sector German police delayed the withdrawal of the Western powers' liaison officer from Berlin City Hall today by demanding to inspect the British officer's files and his pictures of King George and

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ien .Dert to come to my office and see me," the angry British officer retorted. The German policeman notified Whiteford that the Russian liaison officer would attempt to settie the dispute. In adjoining offices, American and French liaison officers stopped packing their files to await the outcome of the British-German police dispute. The United States, Britain and France had ordered their liaison officers to close their offices in the city hall to avoid any suggestion that they recognized the new Communist rump government of the Eastern Berlin. The puppet government held its first meeting in the cty hall only a few hours earlier and claimed jurisdiction over all Berlin. Simultaneously, the regularly-elected city government was meeting in Western Berlin, where it sought sanctuary last Septemr ber after Communist demonstrators prevented it from meeting in the city hall. Withdrawal of the Western liaison officers from the city hall will sever the last formal link between the East and West German governments in the divided city. Railroad Crew Rescues Pilot r VINCENNES, Ind., Dec. 2 (UP) Sheriffs deputies said today that a crew of railroad workmen rescued Charles Robert Bammer, age 24, Patoka, from the wreckage of his plane after other Searchers were unable to find where it had crashed. The Baltimore and Ohio workmen brought a switch engine to a point near the Illinois state line and joined deputies in the search after farmers reported hearing a plane crash near the railroad tracks last night. Bammer was reported in fair condition with possible fractures after the railroaders brought him here in the engine. SliODDinn dhus fill Christmas

Prize Steer, Costing $175, Brings Record Price At Stock Show

By Charles M. Smith United Press Staff' Correspondent CHICAGO, Dec. 2 (UP) Old Gold, an Aberdeen Angus steer which cost its owner only $175 last year, today was auctioned at a record show price of $10.75 a pound at the International Livestock, Exposition. The steer, selected as Grand Champion of the show Tuesday, weighs about 1,200 pounds and brought its owners an auction price of $12,900. The owners are C, E. Yoder & Sons, Muscatine, la., commercial stock raisers. With prizes, the animal brought the owners about $20,000. The successful bidder was the Pfaelzer Brothers firm, representing Glenn H. HcOarthy, millionaire oil man. McCarthy wanted the steer for the opening of the Shamrock Hotel at Houston, Tex., next spring. The previous record per pound price paid for the champion

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at the Communist-controlled told the British officer, Lt. Col. Indicate Levis May Ask For Six-Hour Day WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 (UP) An official of-thS United Mine Workers indicated today John L. Lewis' next contract proposal to the soft coal industry may include a request for a six-hour work day. , The official, William Blizzard, president of Mine Workers District 17, said the union "hopes to be able" to get a shorter work day in the next bargaining conferences. The union's present . contract with the soft coal industry expires June 30, but either party may reopen it on 30 day's notice. The current contract provide? for an eight-hour work day and a 40-hour work week. Blizzard told delegates . to the 15th annual conference on labor legislation that his union feels the 40-hour week is "too long in a lot of industries, particularly in coal mining." He made his remarks as the conference prepared to vote on a resolution approving the 40-hour week. "It is not logical . to handicap our great labor movement by going on record for a work week we think is too long," Blizzard told the delegates. "It would be very helpful to all unions if this conference would eo on record for a six-hour work day and a 30-hour work week." ' ' . Second Pay Is Perforated (By Euleta Slover) Reports from the A. S. Reed No. 1 Gerald Bolinger oil well, northwest of Shelburn today revealed that this morning at 2 o'clock the second pay was per forated and oil and gas were filling the hole. Oil deposits relative to the Rol'nger well flow through nores in the rock formations. Those of the Wilfred field derive their oil flow from a pool under the devonian structure. ATTEND INAUGURAL AT INDIANAPOLIS Miss Telia Haines. John Knox Purcell, Norval K. Harris, and Hubert Sevier attended the in augural services in Indianapolis yesterday In which Charles Fleming became the Secretary of State and James Propst became Auditor of State. steer at the International Exposition was $10.50, in 1946. The Yoders, father and two sons, grinned as veteran auctioneer, Col. Roy G. Johnson, age 49, Belton, Mo., inched the price up by jumps of a quarter to a dollar. Johnson joined in the applause after he made his successful appeal for "why not a new record price of $10.75 a pound?" Texo, the reserve Grand Champion steer, a Hereford which weighed 1,290 pounds. sold for $4 a pound, equal to the previous record here for the re serve champion. It also was purchased by the Pfaelzers for the Shamrock Hotel. Texo was owned by 56 FourH Club boys and girls of Pecos County, Tex, Previously he had sold for $2 a pound at the Texas State Fair, but the buyers re fused to have the animal killed and gave it back to the club for further showings.

Chinese Stop Red Drive Near Suhsien NANKING, Dec. 2 (UP) Three Nationalist . army groups from Suchow smashed into the rear of the Communist forces at Suhsien today and forced an abrupt halt of the Communist drive on Nanking.

Telephone reports from Pengpu, 105 miles northwest of Nanking, said the bulk of 100,000 Communists spearheading the Communist drive had been forced to withdraw northward across the Hui River to meet the Nationalist attack on Suhsien. These reports said the Communists also gave up their attempt to surround and immobilize Pengpu, last Nationalist stronghold on the road to Nanking. The threat to Pengpu was considered removed for the time being. The Nationalist attack was made by forces from Suchow, 70 miles northwest of Suhsien. Suchow was reported virtually abandoned yesterday, with only a small garrison left behind under orders to hold out as long as possible. Suhsien, 50 miles north of Pengpu, is being used by the Communists as a base for their attack toward Nanking. Reports from Pengpu said the Nationalists broke through a Communist screening force at Chiakow, west of Suhsien; and had opened a direct assault on Suhsien. Suchow, a walled city by pass ed by the Communists in their irive on Nanking, was reported olaced under a strict 24 hour :urfew to prevent rice riots that br'oke out . after the main de fending force marched south.. Reports reaching Nanking said street fights broke out and shops were looted when hungry civilians battled each other for bags of rice dropped by parachute. About 15 tons of rice were dropped by commercial pilots flying a parachute airlift. Grand Jury Suggests County School System . BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Dec. 2 (UP) A grand jury report today recommended "immediate adoption" of a county-supported school system for Monroe County schools, consolidating and eliminating many of the small township schools. The grand jury was called to investigate Monroe County schools after parents charged Nov. 15 that many rural schools were short on health facilities and lacked means of giving their children a proper education. The grand jury report sub mitted today charged that lack ofmoney was the main downfall in most of the rural schools. The panel found that sources of drinking water were unsanitary "Many of the buildings are not worth the cost of repair," said the report. "There is no solution to the problem of providing adequate education" for the children of Salt Creek and Polk Townships, "under the present system of township-support schools," the re port added. The grand jury said that pro perty valuation in Salt Creek Township was $287,155, while that of Polk Township was $139,815. Such property valuations "will not support the school facilities which should be provided these children," the statement said. The grand jury also said that the Polk Township school, in ad dition to being unable to . pay other expenses, could not pay its teachers and schol bus drivers in full. WAYNE PUMP NAMES PRESIDENT FORT WAYNE, Ind., Dec. 2. (UP) Charles E. Franks, former executive vice president and gen eral manager of the Wayne Pump Co. here, today took over as pres ident following the resignation of Ben F. Geyer. Geyer, formerly of Plymouth, resigned last night ef. fective Immediately, after 11 years as head of the firm. He will remain as chairman of the board of directors ana saia he will con tinue to devote hi$ full time to the business of the company.

Dugger Seniors Plan Class Play

"He couian t Marry jj'ive is the title of the three-act comedy to be produced by the Senior class of Dugger High School in the gymnasium on the evening of December 13, 1948. The . title describes the major plot of the play which is all about a younj man who goes to visit a family with five eligible daughters and falls in love with every one o them! To make tWings worse, the sisters all fall in love with the young man or think they do. II ceems hopeless, but after manj laughable situations, everythinf 'finally straightens out to every body's satisfaction through th common sense advice .of the girls grandmother. Those taking part in. the play are: Connie, the mother Vera Kirk Ralph, the father Otis Kendall. April, the oldest daughter Barbara Gilham. May,vthe next in line Shirley Risinger. June, the third Helen Patton. Taris, the fourth Mary Sulli van. Leona, the youngest Berthf Smith. Granny. Mr. Barton's mother Mona Bedwell. Etta, Mr. Bafton's sister Loir Bledsoe. Donald Regan, the son of Mr Barton's boss James Scott. The performance will be under the direction of Mrs. Edna Coyner and Miss Glonnovia Wright both of the Dug faculty." The curtain rises promptly at 8 p. m Junior Fireman Gets Expensive FORT WAYNE, Ind., Dec. 2 (UP) A 12-year-old junior fireman was told by Juvenile authorities today he'll have to curb his interest in fire engines. The boy started hanging around the No. 6 engine house here months ago, and the men came to regard' hlm"as''thir"ma'scotriTTiey gave him a cast-off helmet, rubber coat and boots, and when the fire siren would ring, their mas cot would hop on his bicycle and be off in the wake of the big red trucks. Motor Patrolman Chester Ricketts thought there was something funny about it, though, when the lad burst in one night and exclaimed: "Gee, but it's quiet around here tonight." The youngster "left, and within 30 minutes three false alarms were turned in from alarm boxes in the neighborhood. They decided to check on their little friend. Officers had a long talk . with their junior fireman yesterday, and he finally confessed he was responsible for an epidemic, of false alarms and once even attempted to set fire to a garage. All because he liked to see the big red trucks go screaming down the street. "Don't you know how much it costs to call out the fire trucks for nothing?" Juvenile Officer Floyd Haines asked the boy. "Yeah," he said. "I think I heard a fireman sav once each run costs about $22." ' - State Police Hunt Brick-Throwers KALAMAZOO, Michu Dec.2 (UP) All State Police in the area were called out today to hunt for the 200 to 400 brickthrowing men who attacked the workers at the strike-bound Shakespeare plants. State Police Commissioner Donald S. Leonard acted "to bring these men to -justice," as Gov. Kim Sigler ordered an immediate grand jury investigation of the situation. "This kind of conduct will not be tolerated for one moment," Sigler said. "It was an organized conspiracy of a 'goon squad' which came to this law-abiding city to take the law into its. own hands." Seven non-striking workers were injured by flying bricks when the men in 40 cars bearing out-state licenses appeared as the morning shift was going to work yesterday. Police said the sympathizers with the striking CIO United Steel Workers threw- bricks through' car windows, turned over automobiles and destroyed material ready for shipment.

Expert Says Price Picture

Is Improvin j WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 (UP) Dr. Edwin G. Nourse, chairman of the Council of Economic ad visers, told President Truman today that the price situation is improving." But he warned also that increased military foreign aid spending will tip the economic scale back toward inflation. ' Nourse arrived at the White House with a load of charts and graphs. He told reporters he showed the President that the general trend in prices now . is 'encouraging." He said he detected a "flattening out" in some prices' with 'quite a down turn" in food prices. But he saia he has deeded a "creeping ' advance in rents." Nourse will meet at the White House this afternoon with the cabinet coordinating committee to discuss the administration anti-inflation program. Mr. Truman will not attend. . . : Nourse said Mr. Truman was "very much gratified" over the mproved price situation. But Nourse reiterated his be lief, expressed earlier this week, that another "critical period" in the battle against inflation will develop if there are "substantial" advances in military and foreign elief spending next year. bachelor Leaves Money To Zoo FVANSVILLE. Ind., Dec. 2.(UP) An elderly bachelor who liked to see kids having a good time" left most of his $500,000 es tate to the zoo where he was said tQ have spent many of his idle hours. Robert McGrew, animal zoo su perintendent of the Mesker Zoo, said Charles F. Kley, who died last .Monday, left nearly $350,000 to the zoo. , 'MGreV'saicThe' "used" to 'See Kley, who was secretary of the Anchor Supply Co. here, walking around the zoo grounds watching the animals and, particularly, the p'eased looks on children's faces when they frolicked among the cages filled with lions, tigers and gorillas. "I have known for years that Kley was interested In the zoo," said McGraw. ' "But I never had any idea he was a wealthy, man.'' Robert D. Markel," who filed the will in Probate Court here yesterday, said he realized ' as long ago as 1946 that Kley left the money to the zoo because "he was interested in the fact that people enjoyed it." Markel said the will provided that five-sixths of the money be used for the zoo house for animals, reptiles and birds. He said the rest of the money was to be spent in buying more animals. The 'other sixth went to relatives and friends of Kley, Markel said.

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Asks Court Decision On Alabama Vote WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 (UP) James E. Folsom of Alabama today asked the Supreme Court to make 11 Alabama electors vote for the Truman-Barkley ticket in the electoral college. Folsom asked the high court to prevent the Alabama electors from backing. States' Rights candidate J. Strom Thurmond when electoral votes are cast on Dec. 13. He asked the court to overrule a judgment of the middle district court in Alabama and act to prevent the electors from voting for the States' Rights ticket. Folsom told reporters the case "tolls the death knell of the electoral college." He said that either the Court or the Congress would "either vastly modify or completely abolish" the present electoral college as a result of the court controversy. Folsom contends that the Alabama electors , ran under .the rooster symbol of the Democratic party in the Presidential election campaign. He . holds that tnis obligates them to vote for the regular Democratic candidates. "There is not a legal States' Rights party in Alabama," -Folsom said. "They got caught in the Demo cratic chicken coop trying to. kidH nap the rooster." Syrian Government Closes All Schools DAMASCUS, Dec. 2 (UP) The . Syrian government closed all schools and universities today following a series of riots in which, three persons were re ported unofficially to have been j killed, and 57 injured. .', ! The . riots reportedly forced j the resignation of Premier Ja-'i mal Mardam. The schools were shuttered to prevent the student demonstrators of the past three days from getting out of hand in the city. ' Troops also were called out to deal with the riots which reportedly were touched off by the Syrian government's failure to press the Palestine war. x

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PARIS, Dec. 2. (UP) The United Nations political committee today turned down a key proposal of an AngloAmerican plan for working out permanent peace in Palestine a proposal looking to an exchange of territory between Israel and the Arabs. An unexpected political committee vote which tore at the vitals of the Anglo-American scheme came after the UN Security Council had heard a United States plea for admission of Israel to full UN membership at once. The committee first voted tentatively to set up a threenation UN conciliation commission in Palestine, as proposed by Great Britain and endorsed by the United States. Then it voted 25 to 22 against a clause calling for 'certain modifications" of the boundaries of the state of Israel and the Arab part of Palestine.

Combine City, County Schools Trustees Ask INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 2 (UP) The Indiana State Association of Township Trustees today recommended that city and coun ty schools be combined under one board of education. William S. Nisbet, Vermillion County, president of the association, said the proposal goes one step further than one recently made by the state school study commission. The' latter recommended only the consolidation of rural districts outside Indiana cities. The Association, meeting in 13 separate conventions here, also recommended a three-cent increase in the state gas tax and also increases in lecense fees for motor vehicles. Leaton,Day, Lebanon,--president of the 1 1ndiana County Highway Supervisors' Association, said irural highway programs were at , a "standstill" because of lack of funds. Another proposal was for a lengthened term tor county treasurers. William Hall, Rockville, vice-president of the Indiana County Treasurers Association, said taxpayers are paying a "terrific price" for merely "educating" county treasurers under the present two-year, two-term system. Hall said that treasurers only are just getting proficient at their jobs when they must be succeeded by someone else. The association suggested that treasurers' terms be doubled. The Association also proposed the elimination of the joint hunting, fishing and trapping permit and the substitution of separate licenses with individual fees for each. The State Department of Conservation recently made a similar recommendation for the consideration of the 1949 General Assembly. G.O.P. Takes Dim

Question Being Non-Politica

By William A. Drake United Press Staff Correspondent INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 2 (UP) Hoosier Republicans today were expected to take an unenthusiastic yew of a Democratic proposal to make the soldiers' bonus question a non-political issue. Democratic leaders said they would propose to GOP legislative leaders today that the bonus overwhelmingly approved by Hoosier voters be worked out in a bi-partisan manner. Two groups headed by Democratic Lt. Gov.-Elect John Watkins and Republican Senate leader John Van Ness were scheduled to meet to talk over committee appointments. Also on hand will be House Speaker Robert Heller and House Republicand Floor Leader W. O. Hughes of Fort Wayne. Tip-off On Attitude Tip-off on the GOP attitude came when the Republican Senators voted in caucus to introduce the party's own bonus bill at the start of the General Assembly. Republicans were expected to frown on any cooperative plan that would let them share responsibility for any financing project, although they wouldn't

The British, with American backing, wanted the commission empowered to persuade Israel to give the Negev desert of South Palestine to the Arabs in return for Westerly Galilee, the latter won by the Jews in the Palestine war. The defeat of that section o the British resolution appeared to smash the Anglo-American strategy for negotiating a modification of the partition plan voted by the General Assembly a year ago. After the vote, Dean Rusk of the United States asked for an immediate adjournment. The request presumably stemmed from a desire to map new strategy. Th adjournment move won easily. Thus the committee left tlie Palestine issue hanging. Eleven paragraphs of the British conciliation resolution had been adopted provisionally. About 20 paragraphs remained to be adert upon. Barring some unexpected turnabout In the pofitioarcjamrnitfecv the end product of the Palestine debate seemed likely to be a three-nation conciliation commission to promote Arab-Jewish peace' negotiations but not empowered to make its own proposals for a final settlement. A combination of Arab states, the Soviet bloc and a small group of steadfast Israel supporters brought about the rejection of the proposal dealing with the Palestine boundaries. The Arabs opposed the provision because in' bringing the 1947 partition plan and the Bernadotte plan into the Palestine negotiations, recognition of the existence of the state of Israel would be implied. Israeli supporters opposed it because of Israel's claim tlvnt a commission with the owers proposed by the Anglo-Americans would be used to force the Jews to give up all or part of the Negev. The Soviet bloc voted against the clause on the same grounds. '

View Of Bonus mind sharing credit for starting the bonus through the legislative mill. The Democratic plat-fc-m flatly promised a bonus. The Democratic proposal was announced yesterday after legislative caucuses by Watkins. But while he was talking about party cooperation, veteran Democratic Legislator Walter Vermillion, Senate minority leader, piped up with "one thing we will not do, that's go along with a sales tax." The voters who approved the payment of a bonus also chose a sales tax as the method of financing. String' Attached Several Republican . spokesmen said it appeared the Democratic offer to take the bonus out of politics had a string attached to it already. "The Republicans may as well know one time as another," said Vermillion, "that we are never going along with a sales tax." Immediate reaction of at least some GOP lawmakers was to "let the Democrats worry about paying for the bonus if that's their attitude." Both parties completed organization of their legislative bodies yesterday in caucuses at down, town hotels.