Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 51, Number 149, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 28 July 1949 — Page 1
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VOL. 51 No. 149
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SULLIVAN DAILY TIMES THURSDAY, JULY 28. 1949.
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Farmersbiirg Old Settlers Picnic Aug. 3,4, 5, and 6
Plans for the program for the Old Settlers Picnic at Farmersburg August 3, 4, 5, and 6 are practically complete in the way of entertainment and indications
are that this 54th annual gather
By H; D. Quigg United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, July 28. (UP) CIO President Philip ing will be the best ever. On the Murray disclosed today that the fourth-round wage increase opening night, Wednesday, an
demand of h;s 1.000,000-member United Steel Workers of amateur contest with cash prizes
America (CIO) is 1212 cents an hour. . , Murray's disclosure came as he opened the union's case before President Truman's fact-finding board which is sitting in an effort to find a settlement in the dispute between the union and the nation's steel industry. The fourth-round wage demands of the union had not been disclosed before. Murray told the board that the union's proposals "contemplate a total cost to the companies of 30 :ents an hour." "These encpmpass 121? cents per hour in wages deferred for pension, and 6.27 cents per hounfor social insur.ance," Murray said.
Truck Drivers With Overloads Are Arrested
INDIANAPOLIS, July 28 (UP) Troopers swooped down on more than 7,000 trucks on Indiana highways during a 16hour period ending today and arrested 244 drivers oroverloaded vehicles. Indiana State Police announc-
The steelworkers union is one of three key industrial unions which have set the pattern for the three previous rounds of post-war wage increases. In 1946, the steelworkers received an 18 cents hourly raise. In 1947, they got 15 cents more. Last year, they received 14 cents. Murray's figures covered the three issues in demand by the steel workers when they threatened a paralyzing strike July 15 against the steel industry, which supplies the basic material for 40 per cent of the country's indus- . tries. .! v 1 Accede To Truce., The strike was avoided, when the companies acceded to President Truman's request for a 60day truce while" the presidentially-appointed fact-finding board inquires into, the issues. The President gave the board 45 days, ending Aug. 30. to report to him its recommendations for a "fair and equitable" settle-
ed that the check of 7,088 trucks
will be augmented by a troupe of ( in six police districts netted alentertainers under the direction ! so 64 other arrests or equipof Roman's Theatrical Enter-'and license violations, prizes of Terre Haute. Members! It was the second "big haul" of this troupe, emceed by Paul in the last couple of weeks as Roman, are: Russ McCoy, soloist the deparment trained its guns and accompanist; Dick and Shag, ' on truckers accused of ruining
comedy pantomime team known state highways by hauling more named chairman of the cam-
throughout the midwest; Barbara cargo than the law allows. The paign committee. Riggs succeeds Faust, featured soloist with the arrests were made under the pro-1 Dennis Anderson, New Castle championship Elks Chanters; visions of a new 1949 state law I attorney, who directed the de-
Four of a Kind, a championship penalizing the worst violators as tailed campaign in the state a 1 ii a 1 -r i . . . . . . 1 I 4. innn rfr
scnooiooy quartet, inaiana siaie much as 10 cents for each pound - as", wneu
0. B. Riggs ISew State Director For CROP Drive
O. B. Riggs, of Sullivan, widely "known Indiana farmer, former county agent and former member of the extension staff of Purdue University, today was named director of the Indiana Christian Rural Overseas Program (CROP) for 1949. Announcement of the selection was made jointly by John D. Metzlef, national director of CROP, and Lieut. Governor John A. Watkins, Indiana CROP campaign chairman. . ;' Riggs will serve under Lieut. Governor Watkins, recently
high school champions; and Web their trucks are overweight.
Cunningham, magician extraordinary. This entire group will ap-
Big Overload One trucker arrested
in the
pear each night with the excep- Dunes Park area had 23,700 tion of Dick and Shag, who will poUnds more cargo than the lenot be on the Saturday night gai gross limit of 72,000 pounds, program. isaid Capt. Kermit Lewis, field Keynote speakers are being ODerations suDervisor.
Premier Stops Collapse Of French Csblnet PARIS, July 28 (UP) Premier Henri Queuille today stav-
his cabinet, the. most stable 1 Z?U1lday night mUS at 885 trucks and made 99 arrests.
arranged for the last three nights. Rev. J. C. Foutz, although transferred from the Pimento
Although the check in gener
al netted only between three and
about $330,000
worth of corn, wheat, soybeans
and other farm products were contributed by Indiana farm folks. The new CROP director is a 1920 agricultural graduate of Purdue and served more than 20 years as agricultural agent in Sullivan and Posey counties. He also served for a time on the
charge, win return 10 De piat- weighed or checked, the perform chairman this year. 'centage was more than five per Amateurs who wish to enter cent cent in the Dunes Park
id compete in the contest on ; . Th trooDers checked 1.
four arrests in every 100 trucks ! agricultural extension Staff of
xne university as a specialist ana for four years was manager of
Quick work by Queuille caused the rebellious . ministers to
ment. The recommendations will withdraw their resignations. Had
not be binding on either the .they refused, the premier would
France has had since . the war, by persuading four ministers to withdraw the resignations they had submitted. 4 . - . -. ---' - The middle of the road coalition which has governed for 10 months was thrust to the brink of dissolution by a sudden, unheralded squabble over paying vacation bonuses to government employes.
The Farmersburg
before August 1.
management or union.
have been forced to turn in the
resignation of his entire cabinet.
Murray told the board the union was "not afraid to rave its
side of the dispute examined in presented their resignations
the public interest."
"The industry, on the other hand, has been desperately anxious to conceal the economic facts from impartial scrutiny,"-Murray said. "The industry is amassing
The four rightist ministers
to
Queuille this afternoon at an emergency meeting, where he sought to resolve his differences with them over the bonuses. The ministers were Robert Bettolaud, Minister for Veterans Affairs; Robert Bruyneel, Un-
Mo-
prof its at the staggering rate ap- dersecretary of State in the vice
proximating $1,000,000,000 an- premier's office; and Jean nually after all taxes. This is a reau, Undersecretary of record hieh never aDDroached be- for Air.
fore, even in the, boom year 1919.
of
County School Term To Begin Aug. 26 County schools will begin their fall term for the 1949-1950 school year on Friday, Aug. 26, James M. Boston, county superintendent of schools, announced today. The first day, he said, will be organization day within the schools. The annual institute for county school teachers will be held on Thursday, Aug. 25, at the Sullivan High School auditorium. Except for schools In Cass Township and Haddon Township, the school term will be eight and a half months. Cass and Haddon have nine-month terms. The first vacation will be on Monday, Sept. 5, Labor ' Day. Pupils will get the annual twoday vacation for State Teachers'
State Institute on Oct. 27 and 28, and
will have Armistice Day, Nov. 11. as a vacation. On Nov. 24 and 25 will be the Thanksgiving vacation, and the
The crisis blew over a single
day before the National Assem-
I bly, which approved the North
"These exorbitant profits are, Atlantic pact yesterday, was Christmas holiday vacation will the result of exploitation of the scheduled to recess until October, be from Dec. 24 to Jan. 1, 1950.
American people through too high prices and of the employes of the industry through too low wages."
Murray's three-hour address followed a ruling by the board denying the request of the steel companies that the board consider the question of "bargainability" of pensions before any other issues, and separately from the others. The board ruled that all issues would be considered together. The companies .have contended that the reopening clause in their contracts specifically excludes the question of pensions and that the pension issue is not a proper one for bargaining at this time nor for consideration by the board.
FILES SUIT FOR DIVORCE - . Darwin L. Smith has
filed
Unification Needs Patience And Understanding, Says Blandy SALEM, 111., July 28 (UP) , put him, will not sustain his
Unification of the Armed Forces trust during the crucial hour of must come through "patience and battle unless he has that spark
understanding" but the services kindled by patriotism and tradi
tion to see him through." Blandy said there were "inevitable disagreements" at high levels over unification of the services. But he said that in his experience as commander in chief of the Atlantic command "at the planning and operating level, all differences of opinion have been amicably settled to the complete satisfaction of all concerned."
At Plymouth, 37 drivers were
arrested on U. S. 30. At Logansport, 12 drivers were arrested and fined total of $521.60. State, ..Police Supt- . Arthur Thuiston denied 'a 'truck company's complaint that its driver said he was delayed five hours
while his truck was weighed. . i
"No truck would be delayed even a fraction of that time,"
Lewis said. "It only takes two
or three minutes to weigh one truck."
22,000 acres of land for an Indiana coal company. He relinquished the latter position last spring to devote his entire time to his farms in Sullivan County. He accented the Dosition to di
rect the campaign under the suspended
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Youth Injured. In Accident North Of City A youth is unconcious in the Mary Sherman Hospital, two other men were injured slightly, and the driver of one of the automobiles was fined in City Court this morning as the result of a two-car collision about 1 o'clock early today. Jake Johnson, age 19, of Culver, Ind., suffered head injuries in the accident and was taken to the hospital unconscious. He remains unoorlcious today although hospital attendants said his condition was not critical. He was a passenger in a car being driven by Sewell L. Sanders. Henry O. Erb, about 45, of Terre Haute, was arrested after the accident and placed in the county jail. Ho appeared, before Judge Joe Schroeder in City
Court this morning and pleaded question by Rep James q Fu1
guiuy iu a uuaige ui ui. uiij.cii driving and was fined $20 and 'josts. His operators license was
By Frank Eleazer United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, July 28. (UP) Secretary of. Stata Dean Acheson assured Congress today that President Truman's $1,450,000,000 arms aid program makes no provision for sending American troops to Europe. Acheson told the House Foreign Affairs Committee the only exception would be providing technical aid to the countries whose armed forces Mr. Truman wants to bolster. Opening the administration's fight for fast action on the full program, Acheson said it is only the beginning of a plan to build up Western European forces against possible Russian aggression. Acheson said he believes Russia will not take the chance of war if Congress approves the arms program. But, he said, Russia might take such a gambler's chance if arms aid is. not provided to free nat,-ons in Western Europe.
He counted growing Con
gressional demands to put off consideration of the full program until January by saying "we cannot begin too soon." Acheson also told the committee that any effort to force Western European nations into a joint military plan in advance might wreck the program. "That is exactly the way not to get any action," he said. His assurance that American
. troops would not be sent to
turone came in answer to a
Mob Threat Not Real Feeling Of Vet, Says Legion INDIANAPOLIS, July' 28 (UP' A veteran's mob threat statement yesterday to Governor Schricker was termed by the State Commander of the American Legbn today as "unrepresentative of the feelings and thoughts of the real veteran." Legion Commander Joseph F. Lutes commented on the statement made by ex-GI John C; Schulze, Evansville, who was among a group of CIO United Electri 1 . Woi'kers con hrring with Schrhker about the unemployment situation. -Schulze told Schricker "if
something isn't done soon for us
general chairmanship of the i.teut.1 Governor, -and -..already- has started work on the district and county organizational set-up. The CROP program is a joint
effort of Protestant, Catholic and Lutheran churches to collect food and distribute it free
The accident occurred, accord
ing , to Deputy . Sheriff Harold Conner,-' when a " 1949 Packard, driven north by Erb, crashed into the back end of a 1938 Hudson being driven in the same direction by Sanders, age 42, of Jasonville route 2. ,
Terrace Contest To Be Held Friday
through their own organizations
to needy of all faiths in Europe. , bile, and he suffered a cut lip
The CROP oroiect supplements and other cuts about the face.
that of ECA.
New Cases Bring Indiana Polio TotalToM
INDIANAPOLIS, July 28 (U.R) The State Board of Health's poliomyelitis case total for Indiana stod at 211 today as new cases were reported from Marion, Union and La Porte Counties. , The death toll advanced to 20 as the death of two baby girls was reported. Linda Diane Anders, nine month old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph A. Anders of Redkey, in Jay County, died early this morning in an ambulance en route from Portland to Ball Memorial Hospital at Mucie.
Sharon Sue Woolridge, two, the
Sullivan ' County farmers who are interested in the tprracin
contest are urged to keep in , mind that it will be held Friday. t T.,l on tua : - ,.,.! i . ,i ,j
Z.TD was alone in his automo- 4 . . , , nn , . . , i to begin at 11:00 a. m. lla rn ri V-n niiffoHorl n Alii Im I 0
The Dugan farm on which it is to be held, is located one and one-half miles southwest of
Sanders, the driver of the other
':'?lLlhtiTJel.H?Z!S, Princeton. Carl Wampler. Sulli
ment and then released. He re
turned to the hospital today for further examination, but was released again.
Two other passengers in the
van, R. 2, is Sullivan
entrant in the contest.
County's
BONUS BLANKS ' A representative of Veterans
Sanders car, Raymond Klar, age Affairs will be in the following
28, of Sullivan route 4, and his wife, Ruby, age 24, were not injured. The accident, which happened about 4 miles north of Sullivan on U. S. 41, was investigated by Sheriff Hubert Wagner and Deputy Sheriff Conner.
It was reported that the front1
places with typists to assist in filling out state bonus papers. All veterans are reminded to bring original discharge papers and all separation papers with them. The meetings will be held from 7:00 to 9:00 o'clock each evening: Veterans must have their
end of the Packard was exten- award of compensation or pensively damaged, while damage to sion papers and their Veterans the rear of the Hudson was only Administration C number to apmoderate. ply for the extra 100 clause. t Thursday, July 28, Hymera
ILecion Post.
Wednesday, Aug. 3, Legion Home.
Balfzell Sileni On
Retirement Plan INDIANAPOLIS, July 28
(UP) Federal Judge Robert C.
Carlisle
must not lose their individual
identities, Admiral William H. P. Blandy said today. . Blandy, commander in chief of the Atlantic command under the joint Chiefs of Staff, told a vpterans' gathering here that "honest differences of opinion are bound to arise" in the complex field of unified war strategy, but they "must be reconciled through patience and understanding." "Not much good and perhaos a "reat , deal xf harm can be done
by forced agreement to a wrong
.suit for divorce against Anna decision," he said
Marie Smith in the Sullivaa Cir
cuit Court
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Mr. and Mrs. John Kirk
Springfield,' Illinois, announce the birth of a daughter, Sandra Ann, born at the Memorial Hospital Sunday morning. July 24.
COAL TOWER LOSS HEAVY BLOOMINGTON, July 28, fUP An pmerppnpv tmvpr
war veterans, you know what a daughter of Mr. and "Mrs. James : Baltzell, serving his 25th year contaiiing 200 tons of coal burn-
Woolridge, Sheridan, died at the, on Dencn or Indiana's 60 ed early today at Monon KailJames Whitcomb Riley Hospital j county Southern District, refus- r0ad yards. The loss was esti-
ln Indianapolis yesterday. I ea xoaay to coniirm or deny re- mated at $25,000.
TODAY'S TEMPERATURES
The unofficial temperatures in , Sullivan today were:
at 7:30 a.m 78 degrees 'man m the world, in
Addresses Reunion Addressing the 66th annual
Marion County Soldiers and Sailors reunion. Blandy describ-
, ed the inspiration supplied men "OI ii. . a : i ii
vi uie aiuereni services oy meir district uniforms, insignia and traditions as "not a thing to be lightly cast aside." ." "In our efforts to achieve un'v we must, for the good of the nation, preserve he integrity !and identity of the various branches of the armed services," he said. "...The most unified fighting
whatever
Praises Army Blandy warned against recognition of "extremists" who contend that air power and the atomic- bomb would render eround forces and navies obsolete in another war. Blandy added a word of praise for the Army by saying, "I still see the ultimate defeat of the enemy by the foot soldier."
Identifying Communism as a "threat" to the national existence, Blandy said the U. S. must join "with the rest of the world to strengthen the United Nations and strive for international cooperation and understanding, to the end that war as a means of
settling international differences
mob can do." Schulze -jharged that war veterans were the first to be laid off in industries because they
lacked seniority.
ports he would retiro Aug. 15.
"I am not "eligible for retirement yet," Baltzell said. The Republican judge will be 70 on Aug. 15. Federal judges may retire on full salary after reaching that age. "Close friends" of the judge
at noon . . .'. ..... 90 degrees! uniform you might : choose . to! may some day 3e eliminated,
Dr. W. C. Anderson of the Indiana State Board reported two
"I'm sure that such a statement new cases were reported from about a mob does not represent Marion County, four from Union the thoughts and , feelings of the County and one from La Porte real veteran," the Legion com-i County. mander'said. I . . . . , , , ,. "ThP nnpmnlovment Droblem 1 In Washington, the Public
annarpntlv is not too serious at HeaKh Service said 1,441 new were quoted as saying he plan
mmt aithmiffh w are con- Polio cases were reported fromlned to retire.
cerned about it," Lutes said. "The a11 over the country last weekveteran faces the same problem of about 42 Per cent more cases than unemployment as most any other were reported the week before, worker" I The a8encv said 633S Plio James Herod, state adjutant of cas have been reported so far the Veterans of Foreign Wars, this year compared with 4,580 at felt the unemployment situation thls time last vear. among veterans was serious. Public Health officials said the "It is pretty tough but not spread of polio has reached "epalarming right now, Herod aaid. idemic pr0p0rtions-. in four oi "The. average savings per Per-ithe states Texas with i m son among Indiana citizens is cases; California with 708; Okla-
about $7UU,' Herod saw. "tsut homa 425 and Arkansas m. there are many veterans who don't have 75 cents." Herod said The public health service said many veterans today were work- 17 states had more than 10 new
ing for $35 a week whereas they cases last week, and nine states ! ' drew $70 or more shortly after J had more than 20 new oases. The lVlAKKlAGK LlUiSNSK the war. He said a number of vet- nine were Michigan 82; New ' Norma Kelley of Sullivan, R erans with three children were j York, 116; Missouri, 73; Ind- 4, and Guy Emerson Eno of Suldrawing $35 week pay. iana, 84; Minnesota, 79; Kansas, livan, R. 4, were issued a mar- . Herod declined to comment on 45; Wisconsin, 29; Kentucky, 41;jriage license at Terre Haute yesSchulze's statement. , 4 and Illinois-75. -Iterday.
ton, R., Pa. "There is no provisions, . or plan, or contemplation of using American troops except in providing technical assistance" as provided under the- North Atlantic treaty," Acheson said. In answer to another question, -he said military assistance to China "is not feasible" at the present time. Only Beginning Acheson said the arms program is only a beginning. This country, he said, will have to continue for some time, though. " possibly on a smaller, ,scale, to help Western Europe seek security against possible Russian ag-
"The forces in Western Europe will have to be developed further in the years to come, but we
cannot begin too soon," Ache
son told the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
As for the demands for a
smaller program Acheson said:
"What we're dealing with here
is an interim program. The ex
isting forces in Western Europe
are not now as effective as they
can be. What is provided here
will be in accordance with any
strategic plan defised. The forces
in Western Europe will have to
be developed further in the
years to come, but we cannot
begin too soon." Opens Fight
Opening the administration's
fight for the full program, Ache
son warned the House Foreign. Affairs Committee that failure
to provide military aid to friend
ly nations might irivite jittack by "the greatest peacetime" combination of military fores the
world has ever known." "We know the pattern past ag
gressions have taken," Ach iion
said. "The gangster mind likes
to gamble only on sure things
Its victims are the weak and the Unprepared and it does not relish the prospect of fighting an
aroused society." Z He told the committee an in
vasion of Western Europe "would
mean a total war" in which the ssfgreor would be pitting itstrength against the combined
strength of the Atlantic .pact na
tions. No nation would makel
that choice unless it believed it
could win, he said.
Workers Caught In Pacific By War Seek Damages, Back Pay
CHICAGO, July 28. (U.R) An
On rPasnn arfvanrf that , attorney for 796 workers caught
'udge mav not retire is because the 1941 outbreak of the war he is a Republican, and Presi- on Pacific .islands argued tod?v dent Truman presumably would ithat their employers were obliappoint a Democrat to succeed ated. by contract to P3. thfn
him. Among those who were considered likely candidates for the post, should Baltzell step down, were William E. Steckler, Indianapolis, public counselor for the Public Service Commission; Clarence J. Donovan, former mayor of Bedford, and Ralph A. Seal, judge of the Knox Circuit Court at Vincennse.
salaries and damages, etstimated to total more than $50,000,000. J. Herzl Segal, -an attorney, filed a brief in Federal court setting up legal points in sup
port of the suit of the workers,
or their surviving relatives, about five major construction companies.
The workers were caught on
Wake, Guam or the Philippines by the outbreak of the Pacific
war in 1941. They had gone there as employes of the construction
companips to do Naval construction work. Their, suit asks that an ac
counting be made of salaries and
damages suffered by the work
ers, most of whom did not re
turn to the United States until
on or about Nov. 1, 1945.
Filed last year, the suit is din
rected against the Hawaiian!
Dredging Co.. Ltd.; the Raymond!
Concrete Pile ' Co., . the Turne:!
Construction Co., Morriso
Knudson Co., Inc., and - J. Ill
Pomeroy and Co., Inc. Generall I
workers seek about $40,000 eac' for injuries or damages suffers.
in imprisonment as well as bac
salary.
begai argued tnat their eirl
ploying companies were obligal
pd by contract not only to takj
them to the'r island jobs, but a'
so to return them safely, ar
that there was no clause whir
would excuse the companiu
from failure to do so.
Costs in the case are expectel
to be passed along -eventually t
the Federal government.