Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 51, Number 151, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 1 August 1949 — Page 1

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WEATHER COOLER TUESDAY Indiana: Cloudy with scattered showera tonight. Tuesday clearing and cooler.

VOL. 51 No. 151

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SULLIVAN DAILY TIMES- MONDAY, AUG. 1, 1949.

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Marshall Says .Arms Aid Program Needed T Step Aggression

By Frank Eleazer , United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1. (UP) Soldier-Statesman

George C. Marshall said today President Truman's $1,450,000,000 arms aid program to help prevent Russian aggression is "urgently necessary." . Marshall, former Secretary of State and wartime Army Chief of Staff, told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that he considered the program a necessary step in the development of this nation's foreign policy. '"I had been strongly of the opinion long before my separation from the State Department that a program like this is urgently necessary," he said. . ''There is no doubt in my mind as to the desirability of action of this nature immediately." . .

Speaking in a soft voice and

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without any prepared statement or even notes, Marshall sought to persuade a skeptical committee, as well as a skeptical Congress, that the full program as conceived by the State Department and the military establishment is needed. . In support of his argument, Marshall recalled the days of 1939 when he, as Chief of Staff, was trying to get Congress to provide money to build up the nation's armed forces. Referring to this as a personal experience and one that could stand repeating today. Marshall told the committee: "If the military requirements as ' state by us in 1939 could have been met at that time' by the necessary action, we could have whittled away six months of the war, saved about- $50,000,000,000 and prevented hundreds of thousands of casualties." , Marshall's words were received with respect, but it remained to be seen what effect they would have on doubting Congressmen. Last week, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Secretary of Defense Johnson; and the' joint - Chiefs- ef Staff failed- t-cSnvince many members that a full $1,450,000,000 arms aid program for free European nations is necessary. No Criticism. Marshall said he mentioned the 1939, incident not in criticism of Congress, because he felt the real skeptics in the prewar days were the American people. The people, he said, were "considerably affected by a very vocal minority." He said he considered the proposed military assistance pro

gram sound and the "third critical step" in the development of

U. S. foreign policy. He did not say what the two previous steps were, but presumably referring to the formation of the Western union in Europe and the signing of the Atlantic Pact by this country and 11 other nations. Dressed in a blue business suit, Marshall spoke frankly and with-, out emotion in a low earnest voice as he told the House Foreign Affairs Committee how h feels about the arms aid plan.

Fred Duff on, Former County Publisher, Dies Fred W. Dutton, 86 years old, of Sullivan H. R. 4, former Sul

livan County newspaper publish

er, died at the Mary Sherman Hospital at 1 o'clock Saturday afternoon. Mr. Dutton formerly owned and operated The Carlisle News, Farmersburg News and The

Shelburn Enterprise. He is survived by two daugh ters, Mrs. Russell Abell of Sulli

van and Mrs. Stella Williams of Indianapolis; a brother, Hervey Dutton, of Sullivan; twelve

grandchildren and 15 greatgrandchildren. The body was taken to the McHugh Funeral Home in Shelburn where services were held this morning at the Centenary church. Burial was in the Center Ridge cemetery.

Navy,CABProbe

Midair Coliision

Planes

Of Two

driver Uninjured" -As Truck Upsets The driver was uninjured, but a 1949 Dodge xk ton pickup was badly damaged early Saturday morning when it .upset south of Shelburn on U. S. 41. The driver, L. D.. Westley, age 44, of Detroit, told Deputy Sheriff Harold Conner, that his truck skidded on the pavement just south of the Little Flock Cemetery, and the rear truck overturned. He was driving a pickup and pulling another. The front truck was not damaged. The trucks were owned by the Commercial Carrier Company, of Detroit. .

WRJGHTSTOWN, N. J., Aug. 1 (UP) The Navy and Civil Aeronautics Board collected "factual evidence" today to determine how a . stunting Navy

Hellcat fighter plane rammed an

airliner killing 16 persons. Authorities meanwhile trie'd to

identify the 12 passengers and three crew members aboard the

Eastern Airlines DC-3 which

crashed and burned in an alfalfa field near here Saturday. Eleven of the victims still were unidentified.

The Fourth Naval District at

Philadelphia appointed a fourman board to investigate charges that the Navy pilot,. Lt. (JG)

Robert V. Poe, buzzed a low-fly

ing Piper Cub, then zoomed up in a fast turn and hit the twoenpined airliner.

George Humphrey, the airport

manager at Morrisville, Pa., and pilot of the Piper Cub, was the

only witness to the collision, and

the CAB asked him for a sworn statement.

Charges. Buzziing Poe, age 26, of Fairfax, Va.,

was on a training flight from the Anacostia Naval Air Station near Washington, D. C. to Quonset

oint, R. I. Humphrey said the fighter pilot buzzed him twice before crashing into the transport just aft of the wing. Poe, whose plane reportedly was seen stunting over New Jersey just north of Philadelphia, was unable to parachute from his plane which crashed two miles from the airliner. The transport, the first sched

uled airline plane involved in a fatal crash in 11 months, was cruising through cloudless morning skies when the collision occurred. It had just started on the New York-Washington leg of a flight from Boston to Memphis. The Navy Deoartment in Washington said all 'Navy pilots were specifically warned to avoid pommercial or civilian aircraft flight..., ,

the last

THIRTEEN JAPS DIE IN FLOODS TOKYO, Aug. 1. (UP) Thirteen Japanese were .killed and two are missing today in floods on Shikoku Island, central Japan, where heavy rains have inundated thousands of homes, washed out railway tracks, destroyed 300 bridges, an damaged crops.

Big Crowd Attends Fair At Dugger Excellent crpwds attended Dugger Community , Fair

week, with the largest crowd attending the Saturday night 1 session. It was estimated that more than 3,000 persons were on the grounds for the last night of the fair., , The attendance and the number of exhibits entered at the fair

exceeded the expectations of the fair board, and made the judging

of the various classes more diffi

cult- The list of prize winners was not compiled early today, but it is expected that the list will be available tomorrow.

The fair committee has ex

pressed its thanks to all who helped make the fair a success.

Shelburn Woman Makes Second Trip To Birthplace In England

' (By Euleta Slover) "How dear to me are the scenes of my childhood." These familiar lyrics of American song lore-were significant of the sentiments that took Mrs. Margaret Kirk Taylor of Shelburn back to her birthplace in Nottingham, England, for more than a month's visit. . Mrs. Taylor .was born in a small rural area on the outskirts of Nottingham., coming to America in 1892 where her father secured a position as i bookkeeper for one of the many large coal .mines that were the livelihood of the community in those days. She and her mother, pow deceased, made a journey back while she was yet in young womanhood and her latest return was her first sight of her homeland in 45 years. She was accompanied by her niece, Mrs.'Regina Brownson of 1628 North Eighth Street, Terre Haute, who visited her mother's English relatives some 15 or 20 years ago. . Their travel began April 8th when they boarded the R.M.S. Mauretania, British Cunard Lines, at a New York pier for a sevenday trip across the Atlantic to dock at Southampton April 15th. Mrs. Taylor and Mrs. Brownson

Federal School Lunch. Aid Is Reported ? School children in the State of Indiana benefitted to the extent of $1,384,184.30 in Federal Funds

used to help finance their noon

lunches during the school year iust ended, Jesse M. Boston, county superintendent of schools, announced today. In addition to these funds, Mr. Boston reports that , the schoolf received without cost, a large variety of commodities, such as: concentrated orange Juice, peanut butter, cheese, dried eggs, and fruits, for use in the pro-m-sro. These commodities are pur.hased partly ' throgh the United States Department of Agriculture's price support activities and partly with Federal School Lunch Funds; Word comes from Stanleigh

B. McDonald. Indianapolis. Di

rector of the School Lunch Division. State Department of Public Instruction, that trends indicate an increase in the number of Indiana Schools participating in the School Lunch Program during the coming school year. Fifty additional schools have requested applications for participating in the 1949-1950 school year. The National Sciiool Lunch Program Act, under which funds for the' program are made available, was enacted in 1946.. The Act has a two-fold purpose, first, as declared to be a policy of Congress, as a measure of national security to safe-guard the health and well-being of the nation's children and to encourage the domestic consumption .of nutritious agricultural commoditeies and pther food, and secondly to provide outlets for local and nationally produced agricultural products.

Congressional action on funds

Noland To Soea

At Farmersburg Settlers Reunion James E. Noland, Representative from the 7th Inliana District

will deliver an address to Sulli

van County residents at the an

nual "Old Settlers" picnic ai s armersburg August 5-6. ' .According to the established custom of the "Old. Settlers" meetings, the Democrats and Republicans have one night each tc sponsor programs. Congressman Noland has delivered the main address for the Democratic night festivities for .he past two venrs, however, hi; appearance Friday night will be the first time that he has appeared since taking office. Following his visit to Sullivan County, Noland will travel tc Fort Wayne to attend the 31st Annual Convention of the Indiana Department of The American Legion, August 6-8, where he will be a guest of the convention. ,

- H Club Fai

To Be Held Here

n Aug. II, 1, 13

; The Sullivan County 4-H Fair dates this year are August 11, 12, and 13. Plans are' being made for one of the largest 4-H Club Fairs eyer to be held in the county. ; Girls' exhibits are due as follows: Clothing, Canning, Home Improvement, and Handicraft bv 4:00 P. M.. Tuesday. August 9:

for the 1949-1950 fiscal year ana BaKing ana f ooa reparation, made available $83,500,000.00 forpy 12:00 non, Thursday, August

tVio AR state and various terri-t-H.

tories. The Federal Government has indicated that Indiana will receive approximately $1,507,348.00 for food assistance. Locally, school children provide a part of the operating cost in the form of a small charge for the"

lunch. Mr. ' McDonald vindicates.

that it has been determined that

the. children in 1077 Indiana schools participating in the National School Lunch Program, paid $4,346,424.15 for their lunches last year, or an average of 23c per lunch. Further contributions from the local level total $847,450.32. This amount is contributed by Parent-Teachers Association, , Home ' Ec Clubs, or Fraternal Organizations by donations of services, or cash. Mr. McDonald conveyed to Mr. Boston, the County Superintendent of Schools that he would appreciate comments about the School Lunch Program from the parents, teachers, and other interested persons. ,

John D. Giles Rites Sunday

Funeral services were held on Sunday afternoon at the Wood

I Funeral Home for John D. Giles,

MARRIAGE LICENSES

The following marriage licen

ses have been issued by the , R9 vears old. who died at 3:30

county clerk: o'clock Friday afternoon at the

Molly Hudson, of Dallas, Tex., Mary Sherman Hospital. Burial

and Denver Christie, of Dugger. was in the West Lawn cemetery

Marilyn L. Hoesman, formerly j with the Farmersburg Masonic

of Sullivan, now of Columbus, Lodge conducting services.

Ohio, and Earl L. Rogers, of Co- Survivors include two nieces

lumbus, Ohio. and two nephews.

All boys' exhibits are due by 10:00 A. M., Thursday, August 11. Exhibits may not be removed before 4:00 P. Mv Saturday afternoon, August 13. All conservation projects, garden, farm produce projects,, and

jppulty-y wjll be. j udged .Thursday!

afternoon. Beef, hogs, and sheep will be judged Friday and 4-H Dairy cattle will be judged Saturday morning.

The Wabash Valley Parish Show will be held at Sullivan this year, in connection with the County 4-H Club Fair. The parish

includes seven counties in south

western Indiana.

Social Security Credit Available

You now can get a statement

of all your Social Security cred

its through December 1948, ac

cording to J. E. Snider, manager of the Terre Haute field office.

The cost, he said, is one cent for

a postage stamp. "These statements are provided for bv the Social Security Act," Snider explained. "They give a worker an opportunity tc

see that his account is complete and correct. If an employer har omitted his name his social security number, or has reported him under the wrong name or number, the statement is helpfu1 in revealing the facts. After four years, the running of the statute of limitations prevents changing a wage record. -The field office will assist any worker to get j

necessary correction made with

in that limit.

"Requests for a statement

should be sent on the official oost card form which - can- be

obtained from the field office,

in person or by mail. It positive

ly identifies the applicant and

protects him against leakage of confidential matters to unau

thorized persons."

The field office, Room 306

Post Office Building, Terre Haute, is open "daily except Sat

urday, from 8:30 to 5 o'clock.

. By Walter Rundle United Press Staff Correspondent FRANKFURT, Germany, Aug. 1. (UP) America's

three top military leaders today started the historic task of dovetailing the armed might of Western Europe into a military organization to support the Atlantic Pact.

The U. S. joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Omar N. Bradley,

Adm. Louis Denfield and Air Force Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg spent the morning in conferences with defense chiefs

a-om Luxembourg and Italy. The conferences were held in the room that served as

Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's war room in 1945. Huge curtains were drawn across the maps still showing the highwater mark of the American advance to the Elbe, in territory now a part of the Soviet zone of Germany. .

The exact , roles to be assign-

Contributions For Shelburn Fund Contributions to Shelburn Com

munity Club Tornado Kenet

Fund: Home Packing Co. Employees, Terre Haute $87.00 Village Hcmemakers Home

Ec. Club, Sullivan, Alice Letterman, Treas,

Mothers of World War 2

Unit 80, Terre Haute, Dora B. Shiflet, Treas.

Willing Workers Club of

Gill Twp, Sullivan R. R. 1, Mrs. Raymond Wolfe, Treas 10.00

50.00

10.00

Former Sullivan

Teacher In Trio

Cool Weather

To Linger, Says

Weather Mi

(By United Press) The weather bureau today promised comfortably cool weather would linger over most of the nation for several days but the country counted 718 dead as result of last week's heat wave. The dead included 82 fatalities resulting directly from the heat and 96 deaths by drowning. Temperatures dropped dramatically over the weekend when a cold front from Canada swept the heat tortured area from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic. The cooler air was still moving southward and Dixie was expect

ed to feel its full benefit today.

Slightly warmer weather moved in behind it but the humidity was not intense and the rise was not enough to cause discomfort. Some of the highest readings yesterday were reported on the

Northern Plains. Phillip, S. D..

had40a, Raptt-rCitn S.' D., 100, Pierre, S. D., 99 and Huron, S.D., 98. Dickinson, N. D., reported 93. Several tornadoes struck about

eiinnitin -t tV

MU .Toon Pnv who was sun-' jrcstciuay near oeres-

i.iiuu vv.i L fr.iJ J

CiVlSLU VL VULCll lUUdlL Ail Wic uui-

livan Schools from 1936 to 1942, is a member of the Joyce Ralph Trio, which is making a tour of the New England States. The

Annrnvimotw'trio is being booked by the Music

oe hundred Jerseys are expected Corporation of America and this

to be shown from the ' southwest--summer is playing ai uieniown, ern Indiana counties. These ani- Pen,n-; . Kins1t10n' 1 a"d, m mals will represent some of the Berkshl.re Hills, Pittsfield, Mass. best Jersey farms in the country', She ist a sde of ePa This show will be held Friday UT! a Trfll' afternoon, August 12. I attended the Arthur J ordan Coniservatory at Indianapolis. In SulThe Sullivan County Rural livan she was a member of the Youth Club is sponsoring a talent Tri Kappa. Her home is in show Thursday night of the fair, Greenwood, Ind. on the fair grounds. The County j Miss'Bee'cie Bland has return-4-H Dress Revue will be held d to Sullivan after spending

rnaay nigm on tne tair grounds three weeks with the trio

and will be followed by the presentation of special awards. Both these events will be outstanding. The adult ' Home Economics Clubs of the county will have exhibits in the Industrial Arts

Building, located at the left of Funeral services were held at the entrance into the 4-H Fair' 2:30 this afternoon at the Linton

INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 1 (U.R) Hoosiers basked in the coolest

temperatures in weeks today in

the third day of respite from

the summer's worst heat wave.

The mercury dropped as low

as 5i degrees in the state last night at Marion. Virtually every area of Indiana had low tem

peratures in the 50's.

Sunday's high marks were all

in the 70's, ranging from 74 at

South Bend to 79 at Terre Haute and Evansville.

Warmer weather was predicted

for today with cooler tomorrow.

Jesse Miller Funeral Held

Grounds.

Assembly of God church for

The public is invited to attend jeSse Miller, 37 years old, who

the annual 4-H Club Fair Thurs day, Friday and Saturday, Aug

just 11, 12 and 13.

planned their trip especially for this time of the year in order to

view once more the English countryside in spring and summer flower. This had been a wonderful remembrance to Mrs. Taylor for, as she recalled, the fields still bloom profusely with flowers of all descriptions and the country roads are still bounded by wellworn walking paths made by the populace who are characteristically hikers. i The Nottingham Quintennial was also much thought of in their travel plans. Five hundred years ago in this Nottingham village of Sherwood Forest, a Royal Charter was granted to the town which gave it the status of a county and the privilege of self-government. Now, of course, this method of government has reverted to the national. Principal guests of the Notting

ham people for the occasion were Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillip of . whom Mrs. ' Taylor

snapped several photographs. In London, they . visited , such

famous places as. the Tower of London, took a boat trip" down

the Thames to Westminster Ab

bey, where they saw the tombs of

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16 Die In Mid-Air Collision,

i : i j ., ; .. V. . ; T :n

jUicu r i may at ui uuiuc jii xjih-

ton. Burial was in tne t airview

Cemetery. Surviving are the widow, Vio let; five daughters, Betty, Mar

garet, Alice Phyllis and Christina Miller; three sons, Jesse, Jackie and Robert Miller; the

parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elija Miller of Linton; two brothers, Norman Miller of Linton and Charles Miller of- Jasonville; five sisters, Mrs. Lulu Hoops and Mrs. Alma Myers, both of Linton; Mrs

Georeia Wise and Mrs. Beatrice

Kirkman, both of Dugger end Mrs. Bessie Scales of Shelburn.

Former Shelburn Resident Dies :

Mrs. Joseph Kohspoll of Cin

cinnati, Ohio passed away at

7:30 a.m. on July 29, 1949.

Mrs. Kohspoll was the former

Delta Nellans, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. A. J. Nellans and sis

ter of Dr. Byron H. Nellans, now

of Cincinnati, and former resi dents of Shelburn, Indiana.

Delta Nellans Kohspoll was 54

years of age and had been in ill

health for many years.

SHEET COVERED BODIES of 12 passengers and three crew members lay in wreckage afer their

Eastern Airlines passenger plane collided in mid-air with a Navy "Hellcat" Fighter two miles north

of Fort Dix, N. J. Pilot of military plane was elso killed when his plane plunged to earth two miles

west of airliner crash scene. (International Soundphoto.)

MARRIAGE LICENSES

ISSUED IN JULY

Earl A. Engle, county clerk

said ' today that his office had is

sued a total of twenty marriage

licenses in July,

S. D.

Honor Roll Board Offered For Sale

The honor roll board 'on the

northwest corner of the square is for sale.

Mrs. Mary Parks, chairman of

the group that put it up, said today that the board will be taken down, and the money from the

?ale will be used to replace it

with a permanent memorial to the war dad of the county.

The honor roll board, erected

by the Red.White and Blue Com

mittee during World War II, contains the names of Sullivan County's servicemen. In the past few years it has become dilapidated and because of its tattered

looks is being taken down.

Mrs. Parks said the board,

complete with wiring and lights,

will be sold, with the purchaser

to remove the board.

While plans for a permanent

honor board are incomplete, Mrs.

Parks said that the proceeds will go into a fund for the memorial.

ed to Luxembourg and Italy under the anti-Communist alliance were not decided. "We haven't quite worked that out yet," Denfield said after the two sessions. . ; All participants in the two morning conferences emerged beaming. The Americans opened their 10 day round of European conferences with Col. Aloyse Jacaby, chief of staff, and Maj. Guillaum Albrecht ol the tiny Luxembourg army. , Are Briefed This afternoon the joint chiefs will be briefed by American Army and Air Officers on U. S. Defense strenth in Europe. Bradley,' in answer to a question, said the -joint chiefs will skip Portugal on their tour but will meet with military men of all the other Atlantic pact nations.". There was no discussion of ! American arms to either Italy or Luxembourg, participants said. -The conferences were held in the'sprawling I. G. Farben building. The joint chiefs conferred 75 minutes - with'Mhe 'Luxembourg officers, discussing mostly organization of the Atlantic pact staff, under the Brussels pact, tiny Luxembourg is committed to supply only one division to aid the defense of Western Europe. The American, Luxembourg and Italian officers lunched together. Tomorrow the joint chiefs will travel., to the huge Grafenwohr training grounds, near the Czechoslovak border, where U. S. Air and Ground Forces are being assembled for war games in early September. The major conferences with foreign leaders will be held later

this week at London and Paris. When all Atlantic pact nations

have been heard and all defense plans drafted, the joint Chiefs of

Staff will return to the United States to report to President Truman and Congress.

John Wooley Dies In West

Word has been received here

of the death of John Wesley Wooley of Long Beach, Californ

ia. Mr. Wooley died Wednesday

morning.

He is survived by the wife,

Loma; one son, John Clarence; two brothers, Garnett Wooley of

West Terre Haute and Sam Wolley of Worthington and one sister, Mrs. Amelia Vanscoter, of Long Beach, California. Mr. Woolley was the son of Mf and Mrs. Herbert Woolley, former residents of Shelburn.

Mrs. Sarah Hamilton Funeral Sunday Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Hamilton, 93 years old, formerly of Hymera, died Thursday at an Evansville nursing home. She is survived by a son, Leland M. Hamilton of Marion, Indiana; a daughter, Mrs. Mary Deuker of Evansville; five grandchildren and six greatgrandchildren. Funeral services were held this afternoon at the Bethel ' Methodist Church, in Hymera, with burial in the K. of P. Cemetery. The Railsback Funeral Home was in charge of services.

INDIANA EXCEEDS -"E" BOND QUOTA INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 1. (U.R) Indiana exceeded its quota of Series "E" opportunity drive savings bonds purchases by- more than 20 per cent, campaign officials said today. Acting State Bond Director Robert W. Fowler said total sales amounted to $34,080,475. He said all of the state's 92 counties exceeded their quotas.

EX-REFORMATORY CHAPLAIN DIES NEW ALBANY, Aug. 1. (UP) Rev. Lyman C. Murr, age 76, for years a chaplain at the Indiana State Reformatory, died yesterday at his home. His church pastorates over 49 years in the Methodist Ministry included Indianapolis, Lawrence and Shelby-ville.