Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 50, Number 253, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 22 December 1948 — Page 1
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By James F. McGIincy United Press Staff Correspondent : PARIS, Dec. 22. (UP) The Dutch today defied United Nations Security Council efforts to halt their campaign in Indonesia, charging that the republic there was undermined by Communism which threatened eventually to take over complete power. ' . J. II. Van Royen, -Dutch delegate, told the Council that his country would continue its Indonesian campaign "whatever the costs and consequences" a tacit reference to the possible imposition of penalties by the UN.
ine council met in emergency session to consider the Indonesian situation. The United States was reported preparing to present a resolution branding the Dutch as aggressors and demanding that the fighting stop at once. Van Royen denied the Council's competence to intervene. He said the situation was wholly an internal Dutch affair. - "The republic has been relying a good deal on support by Communist leaders, and is thereby influenced by Communism with the constant danger that the group will one day suddenly take over complete power," he said. In a cable to the Council, H. Merle Cochran. U.S. representative on the UN commission of good offices in Indonesia, denied that there were any signs of Indonesiari military preparations 'before the Dutch attacked Suntiny. .. . . V The Duteh took " the position that the Indonesians were planning big scale disorders, and the campaign against them was a police action aimed at securing order. "The committee was not aware of any circumstances connected with the concentration of republican forces or maneuvers of the republican army which should have given rise to apprehensions and alarm leading to precipitate action on the part of the Netherlands," Cochran's message said. "Military operations of the nature carried out by the Netherlands forces must have involved considerable planning." Outside the Council chamber an Indonesian delegation spokesman charged that Van Royen's long speech was a filibuster aimed at blocking Council action today. He said the Dutch had a preponderance of military equipment in Indonesia, and every delay worked to their advantage. Con's Picks Its Spot SAT LAKE City (U.R) "Con's Confectionery" is the name of a little store near downtown Salt Lake City. The county jail is just a half block away.
Question of Time Sure To Come Up Before 1919 State Legislature By William A. Drake suit, cities and counties have a United Press Staff Correspondent ) confusion of time zones from INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. , 22 KU.R) ; May through September. - It is
An overwhelming majority of Indiana legislators are in favor of keeping Hoosier clocks on an even keel the year round. They think when it's 9 a. m. at Michigan City it ought to be , 9 a. m. at New Albany and ; everywhere else, too, winter and summer, spring arid fall. They agree that the state should be on a one-time basis. But they don't see eye to. eye on the question of whether it should be fast time or slow time, . a United Press survey showed today. Sixty-one out of 71 members ,of the 1948 State General Assembly who replied to a U. P. questionnaire inviting their personal opinions of state issues said they favored time standardization. The other 10 felt that no change should be made from the present system. ., At 'present, Hoosier communities are on Central Standard Time seven months of the year. There is no state law governing Daylight Saving Time. As a re-
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December Tax Is Completed The December distribution of taxes has been made, Hubert Sevier, county auditor, said today. According to the figures, a total of $442,069.67 was collected by the county treasurer during the fall collection period, with the state, county, township, and city taxes coming out of that. Mr. Sevier stated that the amounts going into state funds were: State tax, $1,431.02; state school tuition fund, $8,709.20; teachers- retirement- fund, - $6,807.40; Board of Agriculture 'fund, $397.13; state forestry fund, $737.46,' and World War Memorial fund, $1,134.56. The amounts going into county funds were: county general fund, $71,110.18; county welfare, $36,306.02; Mary Sherman Hospital, $15,883.91. The various taxing units in the county received the following amounts: Jackson Twp. . $15,237.16 Hymera 1,195.38 Curry Twp. 24,578.17 Shelburn 3,324.39 Farmersburg 3,053.95 Fairbanks Twp. ...... 10,782.44 Torman Twp 15,952.71 Hamilton Twp. ...... 21,876.89 Sullivan City 32,918.80 Sullivan School City . . 42,026.03 Cass Twp. . . '. 35,332.82 Dugger .............. Dugger Library 3,154.64 481.20 Jefferson Twp. 16,801.44 Haddon Twp 285.98 Carlisle 3,379.40 Haddon-Carlisle Schools 27,214.99 Gill Twp 23,358.15 Merom 1,130.86 left up to each to decide whether to adopt Daylight . Time during the summer months, ahd the question annually causes a controversy in most of the cities involved. In the 1947 legislature, a bill to put all the state on Daylight Time during summer months was "indefinitely postponed" by a voice vote of the House of Representatives. There are certain to be bills touching on the touchy time question in the 1949 assembly, and one of them probably will be the result of a Kok.omo Junior Chamber of Commerce movement to put the state in tne eastern rime zone instead of Central. . . The issue appears to have no political implications whatsoever. Of those who favored it; 29 were Democrats and . 29 Re publicans. Of those opposed, five were Democrats and five Republicans. Two other Democrats, one a Senator and one a Representative, gave qualified "yes" answers.
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Stale Highway Death Toll May Reach 40 INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 22, (U.R) State Police predicted today that some 40 persons might be killed in Indiana traffic - accidents during the Christmas-New Year holiday period "unless merry-makers take extra precautions on holiday trips." Robert Rossow, State Police superintendent, said that 1948 fatalities probably would exceed last year's. But, he added, "it's not too late to save your life." Rossow said that 39 persons were killed in traffic accidents between Dec. 23 and Jan. 2 last year and 42 persons were killed during the same priod two years ago. He warned Indiana motorists that daylight hours were shorter and that poor visibility and icy pavements would increase driving hazards. Rossow said that the 1948 accidental death toll probably would be more than the 1947 total of 1,109. He said that deaths over last week-end had boosted thjs year's fatality total to 1,073. He said that Setpemebr appeared certain of being regarded the "worst month of 1948," with 123 deaths listed for that month.
Phone Company Appeals Board Waqe Order TNDTANAPOLIS. Dec. 22. (OR) The Indiana Bell Telephone Co. today appealed J a "state- arbitration board's wage increase order and said the board exceeded its authority in granting 10 and 11 per cent increases to the firm's employes. The utility filed a petition in Marion Circuit Court asking that the action of the arbitration board be reviewed by the court. Last Friday, the three-man board appointed under the controversial 1947 state utilities compulsory arbitration law ordered the phone company to raise the wages of employes making below $50 a week by 11 per cent and those of employes making $50 or more by 10 per cent. Bell spokesmen said the wage increases would apply to workers in three of the company's five departments and that the increases would amount to "close to $1,500,000." "The company is not trying to avoid a wage increase," said Bell Vice President and General Manager Charles W. Potter. "However, it seems very doubtful that the board's blanket order conforms to the law, or that the order is-supported by the evidence that was presented by the company and by the unions. v "It is also questionable whether the board had the power to arbitrated this particular case at all. Our existing three-year contracts with the unions specify the way in which wage changes are to be arrived at." , The utility had protested on that point, Potter said, during hearings held by the arbitration board. Last September, the communications workers union asked Governor Gates to invoke the new state law because it said the company and union had failed to agree in. negotiating sessions on the wage issues. Elkslniiiate Tvenfy-One Monday Twenty-one persons were initiated into the Sullivan Elks Lodge at a dinner meeting at the Elks Home Monday night. Those initiated included; Robert Loudermilk, Donald L. Moore, Ross Ransford, John W. Prather, Lester Carrico, Thomas M. Durham, R. G. DeHart, Robert W. Shepherd, Frank Heath, Elmer R. Riggs, William J. Thewlis, J. O. Whalen, Billy Allen Jared, John C. Pirtle, Carl Lester, Paul Harden, Jack W. Hayden, Carl Wampler, Dennis L. Goodman, Jesse Engle, and Ellis C. Walker.
O'Byrne SlatedTo Be Named As P.S.C. Chairman
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 22 (U.R) Roscoe C. O'Byrne, Brookville, retired judge, of the FranklinUnion Circuit Court, today was slated to take over as -jhairman of the Indiana Public Service Commission in Gov.-Elect Henry F. Schricker's administration. Schricker announced O'Byrne's appointment late yesterday. O' Byrne will succeed Leroy E. Voder, Goshen, on Jan. 10. O'Byrne served three terms as Franklin-Circuit judge and in 1942 was the Democratic candidate for judge of the State Supreme Court. He retired from the bench in 1946 and has been practicing law in Brookville since. , Schricker thus departed from a tendency to name members of his first administration to key posts In his new official family. He still has to name the other two members of the three-man commission to succeed Lawrence W. Cannon, Michigan City, a Democrat, and Lawrence E. Carlson, Huntington, a Republican. O'Byrne, a native of Indiana who has lived in Franklin County all his life, has been practicing law since 1918, when he was discharged from the Army after service in World War I.. He was first elected judge of the 37th Judicial Circuit in 1928. He was re-elected in 1934 and 1940. ; He served as state chairman of committees on American citizensh ip and mem bership cf nhe-in-iana State Bar Association and is a member of the American Bar Association. His wife, Mrs. . Estelle A. O'Byrne, is the president-general of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the third Hoosier woman to hold the officeShe once headed the Indiana DAR. Mistletoe Found On Edwards Farm A good-sized bunch of mistletoe is growing in a tree on the Hubert Edwards farm, about eight miles west of Sullivan on Indiana 154. Mistletoe in Sullivan County is unusual, as the plant usually grows quite a bit farther south, and this bunch is believed to be the only one in the county. . Mr. Edwards said today that the mistletoe is growing in an elm tree and . has been growing there for about 20 years. He said the growth started after he and his family moved there some 22 years ago. The plant is a parasite and grows on deciduous and evergreen trees. In England it is used . extensively for decorations and most of the mistletoe there is obtained from apple trees. In America, it grows abundantly on poplar, willow, and oak trees. It is believed that mistletoe is scattered by birds wiping their beaks as seeds adhered to their beaks as they ate the mistletoe berries. William B. Jewell Dies Early Today William B. Jewell, age 84, died at his home eight miles "orthwet of Sullivan this morning at 2:30 o'clock. He was a l'fe-long resident of Sullivan County. He was. a member of the. Odd Fellows Lodge. Surviving are the wife, Louise; two daughters, Mrs. Hazel Jones and Mrs. Helen Whitman, both of Sullivan, R. 4: a son, Donald Jewell of Roswell, New Mexico; six grandchildren: eleven greatgrandchildren, and a sister, Mrs. Emma Harris of Arlington, California. . ' The body was taken to the Billman Funeral Home where it will lia in state. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock with the Rev. Jack Anderson officiating.
Thirty-Four Die In Crash With T.R.'s Grandson
SHANGHAI, Dec. 22 (UP) The operations manager of Chinese National Aviation Corporation notified headquarters here today that Quentin Roosevelt pnd 34 others died in the crash of one of the company's planes yesterday. Capt. E. M. Allison wired (Hong Kong that 27 of the victims were Chinese passengers, j mostly wealthy evacuees from , Shanghai. . - , All aboard were killed in the first impact," Allison reported. VThe bodies have been sent to the Kowloon mortuary," -' The big DC-4 Skymaster that carried the grandson of President Theodore'' Roosevelt to his death crashed into a hillside and burned on Basalt Island, 13 miles from Hong Kong, during poor flying weather. Airline officials said Roosevelt's body had been positively identified. The son of the late Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., was a vice president of the airline, which has been ferrying refugees from the China war, It was understood that Corther and head of William Hunt and Company of Hong Kong, had taken off for Shanghai to join Quentin's widow and three I children. Mrs. Roosevelt is the former Frances Webb of KanI sas City, Mo. She was a former American Red Cross worker who married Roosevsltat Blandj ford, Eng., in 1944. rf The " Skymaster- wett down 14 I minutes before it was slated to land in the British Crown Col ony. It maintained radio contact on its trip south and then informed the Hong Kong airport that it was letting down for a landing. The cause of the crash has not been determined. A search plane found the wreckage. Louis E. Beck Dies At Dugger Louis E. Beck, 70 years old, of Dugger, died this morning at ! 2:15 o'clock following an extended illness. He was born in I Greene Countv V'Jnuary -24, 1878 the son of William and Frances Page Beck. 1 Surviving are the wife, Alice Borders Beck: three daughters Mrs. . Frances Byarley of South Bend, Mrs. Anna Mae Norris of Sullivan, and Mrs. Phyllis E. Hiatt of Dugger; ten grandchildren; two great-grandchildren: two brothers, Elmer and Ray Page, both of Linton route, and itwo sisters, Mrs. Daisy Moody of Sandborn route and Mrs. Grace Enochs of Sullivan route. I ' The body was taken to the Newkirk Funeral Home in Pleasantville and was removed to the residence this afternoon. Funeral services will be conducted Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Church of Christ in Dugger with Br.o. Maurice Clymore officiating. Burial will .be in the Dugger Cemetery. Mrs. Candace Corbin Dies Tuesday Mrs. Candace Corbin. age 86, died Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock at her home, 216 South McCammon Street. Surviving are a daughter-in-law, Mrs. Mamie Corbin; ' three grandchildren, Mrs. Cleo Brown and Mrs. Josephine Powell, both of Sullivan, and Ernest Corbin of Sullivan, R. 1; eleven greatgrandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren. She was a member of the. Mt. Tabor Methodist Church. The body was taken to the Railsback Funeral Home where services will be held Thursday afternoon at 1:30 . o'clock with the Rev. Canfield officiating. 1 Burial will be in the Hopper Cemetery. .
Chinese Cabinet To Start Peace Talks At Once NANKING, Dec. 22. (UP) The new Nationalist cabinet of Premier Sun Fo will begin discussions almost immediately on the question of whether to seek a negotiated peace with the Chinese Communists. An affirmative decision is expected, high Chinese sources said, but the major question as to whether the Communists now, in view of their continuing military successes, would be willing to accept anything less than virtual surrender complicates the issue. Sun, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, and other Nationalist leaders are extremely anxious to make it appear to the Communists that they cannot possibly hope to conquer all China militarily, it was said. It was expected, therefore, that an unusually strong Nationalist fighting effort may be forthcoming in the next few days on the approaches to Nanking. If Communist advances toward the north bank of the Yangtze could be halted, Red leaders might be more willing to discuss what Sun calls "an honorable peace." This presumably would be a settlement calling for a coalition government in which the Communists would have no more than an equal share of power. The Kuomintag central political council approved Sun's cabinet list today, and it was to be announced formally by President Chiang Kai-Shek later. It will be installed tomorrow. . . Chiang has agreed to let ,-Jrie cabinet decide the question of peace or war, and has indicated he will resign if it is decided, as is expected, to seek a peace by negotiation, an unimpeachable source said. 'Military, there were no major developments. Peiping and Tientsin, last major cities of North China in Nationalist hands, were cut off by Communist forces, who were at the very walls of PeiPing. . .
Masonic Lodge Elects Officers The Sullivan Masonic Lodge No. 263 F. & A. M., elected officers for the coming year at a meeting held last night at the temple. Floyd Nesty was elected as worshipful master; Cecil Taylor, senior warden; Harlen Powell junior warden: Frank Bell, treas urer; Russell Inbody, secretary, and Alvin Spainhour, trustee for a three-year term. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS Mr. and Mrs. James McCammon of Carlisle, R. 2, are the parents of a son, Richard Leslie, approval of the State DepastSherman Hospital. , ., Mr. and Mrs. James Exline of Dugger announce the arrival of a daughter, Cheryle Diana, born December 20th at the Mary Sherman Hospital. A. M. COLLINS DIES IN WEST Word has been received in Carlisle of the death of A. M. Collins. Mr. Collins died Monday, December 20th. He is survived by the wife; two children; three grandchildren, and three brothers. Charles, Owen and Lee Collins, all of Carlisle. Funeral services and burial were in Phoenix. Shoopino tfaus till
- By Earnest Hoberecht United Press Staff Correspondent TOKYO, Thursday, Dec. 23. (UP) Hideki Tojo, Japan's wartime dictator, and six of his arch-conspirators were hanged on the gallows at Sugamo Prison today for the murder and enslavement of millions in the Pacific war. Only a small group of unidentified military officials stood beside the four newly-erected gallows when Tojo and the six men who were convicted of starting the war of aggression in the Pacific plunged to their death. The announcement of the hangings came shortly after midnight in an official release from MacArthur's public information office.
Executed with Tojt) as architects of Japan's Pacific aggression were Gen. Kenji Doihara, age 65, so-called "Lawrence of Manchuria;" former Premier Koki Hirota, age 70; . Gen. Seishiro Itagaki, age 63, who starved war prisoners in the Dutch East Indies; Gen. Heitaro Kimura, age 59; Gen. Iwane Matsui, age 70, who directed the rape of Nanking and the killing of 200.000 Chinese in six weeks; and Lt. Gen. Akira Muto, age 56, responsible for the rape of Manila.
I ff nonman Mops Recovery Aid To Dutch Indies WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (UP) Recovery Chief Paul G. Hoffman today cut off all recovery aid to the Netherlands East Indies until the Dutch conflict with the Republic of Indonesia is -settled. " W The Economic Cooperation Administration, of which Hoffman is head, said that the action does not affect the ECA program for the Netherlands itself. However, money which already has been earmarked or authorized for the Netherlands East Indies but not yet used will not be committed for the present. . Hoffman's decision . has the approval of the State Department which is seriously concerned with the Dutch "police action" in the Indonesian republic Xo "restore order." Already about $66,000,000 has been authorized in grants by the ECA for use by the Dutch in the Netherlands East Indies. There was no immediate estimate of how . much of this already has been spent. Most of it is for textiles, rice and wheat flour, sorely needed by the natives. . The Republic of Indonesia has not received any Marshall plan aid. All of the $66,000,000 has been authorizd for the Netherlands East Indies. Mrs. Donnefla Howk Dies at Dugger Mrs. Donnetta Howk, of Dugger, died suddenly at her home Tuesday evening at 6:45 o'clock. She is survived by four son? John, Theodore, Alfred and Cler Howk, all of Indianaoolis; f daughter. Mrs. David Brown o' Bucktown: four sisters, Mr. George Morris and Mrs. Fni Sweeney, both of Byron, Michigan, Mrs. John Gill of Illinois and Mrs. Estel Dickerson o" Kywall, Kansas, and a brother Shermen Critchfield cf Lawrenceville, Illinois. The body was taken to thr Evans Funeral Home. Funera' arrangements are pending. . HOSPITAL NOTES' Admitted Dec. 20: Mrs. Thelma.McKee of Carlisle, R. 2, for surgery. Admitted Dec. 21: Paul Stoelting of Carlisle, for treatment. Admitted Dec. 22: John Tetrick of Cass, for treatment. Dismissed Dec. 19: John Akers of Shelburn R. 2; Walter Bartlett "f Sullivan, R. 3' Sally Rose Medsker of Merom. R. 1. Dismissed Dec. 20: Mrs. June Hale of Cass. Dismissed Dec. 21: Mrs. Winona Storey of Dugger. Dismissed Dec. 22: Oris Neal of Carlisle, R. 1.
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Prison di-ama was bald, hatchet-faced Tojo, the 64-year-old virtual war dictator of Japm, who took over the reins of the power-drunk nation two months before the Pearl Harbor sneak attack. It was Tojo who gave the order that sent 150 " Japanese planes and seven midget submarines against the Hawaiian -Islands on Dei. 7, 1841, in a sur prise raid which caused the deaths of more than 3.000 Americans and crippled the Amercan Navy lor many months. ' At-thtf rfrire'-'ortfic "aitack,". .two Japanese emissaries were talking peace in Washington. Tojo drove the Japanese war machine from October, 1941, to July, 1944, relinquishing the premiership only after it became obvious the war was lost."'. ... Tries Suicide Tojo shot himself below the heart in an attempt to commit suicide on Sept. 11, 1015. But he was saved by American Army surge'ons and lived to become tha only one of the three Axis dictators to be tried for crimes against humanity. Doihara, known as the "Tiger of China" and the "Lawrence of Manchuria," was the Japanese most hted by the Chinese. He was the brutal, swaggering manufacturer of "incidents" to further Japan's expansion on the Asiatic continent. He and Hirota were the two men who appealled to the U.S. Supreme Court in a vain lastminute attempt to escape the noose. The High Court held that it was without jurisdiction to review a case with such an international complexion. Hirota, premier of Japan during 1936 and 1937, was one of seven leaders of the insidious Black Dragon sc-;iety, secret nationalistic organization that spread fear over Japanese-occupied territories during the war. It was Hirota's cabinet, the Allied tribunal , found, which formulated Japan's original policy of national expansion over East and Southeast Asia. His government signed the anti-Comintern oact with Germany, sealing Japan's partnership with the Axis. Thomas Buckley . Dies Ai Shelburn Thomas Buckley, 83 years old. died at 1 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at- the residence in Shelburn. 1 He is survived by a daughter. Miss Lelia Buckley of Shelburn: three sons, C. A. Buckley of Houston, Texas and Lester and Paul Buckley, both of Shelburn; two sisters, Mrs. Jessie Bardsley and Mrs. Martha Raffles, both of Shelburn; six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren, , The body was taken to the McHugh Funeral Home where services will be held at 2:30 o'clock Thursday afternoon. Burial will be in Center Ridge Cemetery.