Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 51, Number 156, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 8 August 1949 — Page 1
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VOL. 51 No. 156
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SULLIVAN DAILY TIMES MONDAY, AUG. 8, 1949.
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leaf h list Is Cut Inlcuador Quake; Plan Food Airlift
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By Carbs Mantilla V United Press Staff Correspondent QUITO, Ecuador, Aug. 8. (UP) An official spokesman sa?"d today that destruction in last Friday's central Ecuadorian earthquake may reach $50,000,000 or more, but he scaled down estimates of dead to between 2,000 and 4,000. ' Many believed dead, he said, had been found among seme 227,000 men, women and children who fled to the hills and plains in terror after the tremors wrecked their villages and homes. Rescue workers found them camping in the open, ne said. The spokesman was Miguel Albornoz, secretary to President Galo Plaza Lazo. The President himself in a radio broadcast. Sunday after his return from the disaster scene had estimated the dead at 5,tr00 and the injured at 20,000.
"It is impossible to tell the ex
act total killed," Albornoz said, "until we begin large scale digging in the ruins of towns, and this is made difficult because we lack bulldozers and other machinery. "The task is too monumental to be tackled with picks and shovels." He said tents were needed urgently to shelter the 227,000 living or wandering in the hills. The government is also trying to feed the refugees, he said. The government has organized an airlift to rush food and supplies to the earthquake area some 70 miles south of Quito. Planes of every type and description took off at the rate of one every 10 minutes for the flight to Ambato, a thriving industrial and farming city "of 20,- : ,000 that was completely jdestroyr' -ed, by. Friday's series 06 quakes. Six Towns Gone President Lazo reported to the nation that the six cities of Ambato, Guano, Pelilo, Pillao, Palate and Salcedo were completely destroyed. The town of Pelilo, he said, was completely obliterated. "Of the 3500 inhabitants, only 300 were left," he told the nation in an appeal for contributions to the Quito blood bank for earthquake victims. Rescue workers who reached the town of Guano, near Ambato in the quake area, could not find a single survivor from among the 6,000 inhabitants. All had been killed or fled, they . said. Earthquake damage spread over an area of 4,000 square miles with a population of 100,000. Seventy per cent of all the houses in the area were destroyed, rescue workers reported. v
Lake County Residents Face
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Milk
fate Legion
Convention Gets DovnToBusinsss FORT WAYNE; Ind.; Aug. 8. (UP) Business sessions and the traditional parade will highlight the 31st annual convention of the Indiana Department of the American Legion today. ' The fun-loving Hoosier Legionnaires, jamming hotels and generally taking over this city, settled down to serious business which will be climaxed with the election of officers tomorrow. After some ' week-end funmaking, they gathered at Quimby Auditorium yesterday to hear a report from Newspaper Publisher Eugene C. Pulliam.
Pulliam, publisher of The Indianapolis Star and News and other papers, warned that the Western powers will have to remain on
the a!ert in Germany for a long time to come to protect their interests. "The Germans want us to go home" he said, "but it will be at least two generations before we can relax our controls." Best Security. He said the best security against another world war is to
GARY, Ind., Aug. 8. (UP) A . keep Russia out of the productive
milk famine hit the half-million Ruhr Valley. He warned that residents of Lake County, Ind., ' Germany would become another today when 14 dairies shut down Russian satellite state if Russia in what labor leaders called a were given a voice in governing "lockout." ! and controlling the Ruhr. The mass shutdown was an J Pulliam, who recently toured outgrowth of a strike against a Europe, said Germany is stronger, 15th milk firm, Borden Co. "economically, financially and "A strike against one of us is a spiritually" than ' Great Britain
He blamed socialism for England's plight. "Socialism robbed 'the people of England of incentive," Pulliam
-said- 'Today England faces com
plete economic collapse ... or dictatorship." At another business session, Hairy L. Barr, Rockville, was elected Grand Chef de Gare of the Indiana 40 and 8. Other 40 and 8 officers were J. W. Barber, -Anderson, Grand Chef de Train North; Arnold B. Hunt, Greenfield, Grand Chef de Train South; Lee Hirsch, Angola, Grand Chef de Gare Passe, and Jack A. Haymaker, Logansport, Commissaire Intendant. ' Phil Clements, Indianapolis, was re-elected Grand Correspondent, a post he has held 24 years. Receive' Trophy. The Fort Wayne Voiture was
Name Elks District Deputy Ruler
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strike against all of us," said E
C. Stumpf, speaking for all 15 member firms of the Lake County Milk Dealers Association. Members of the association at a meeting last night decided to close their doors, today. Members of Local 835 of the Milk Wagon Drivers and Dairy Employes (AFL), reported for work today and milled around the closed plants. No picket lines were, formed and police said the dairy workers were orderly. Ware Dispute. The union struck against Borden company yesterday because of a wage dispute in contract negotiations with all 15 companies. The dispute cut off the milk supply of residents of Gary, Hammond, East Chicago and Whiting, Ind. Union and association officials have agreed to meet today to set up emergency deliveries to hospitals and other institutions. There was no indication that babies or individuals outside of hos-
Lstate. and district cojnpttewAnftl?eSnS.iii Wwratfoajagariy.Ju.1
J. Floyd Beldon, of Seymour, has geen appointed District Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks for the Indiana - South District, it has geen announced by Emmett T. Anderson, Grand Exalted Ruler for the coming year, at Chicago. The local lodge is one of the 14 lodges in the Indiana - South District which will be under Mr. Beldon's jurisdiction for the com
ing year. He will leave soon for Chicago to attend a conference of District Deputy Grand Exalted Rulers called by Grand Exalted Ruler Anderson to discuss affairs of the Order and activities for the coming year. Mr. Beldon has served two terms as Exalted Ruler of Seymour Lodge No. 462, B. P. O. E. and is present secretary of that lodge, a post he has held for 15 years. He has served on several
Guardsman Gets Polio; Death tisHits36 INDIANAPOLIS,.' Aug. 8.MU.R) An -Indiana' .National; Guardsman ih summer ' training' with 6,000 others at . Camp . Atterbury was III of Polio today and military
authorities prepared to spray his barracks area with DDT to pre
vent spread of the disease. The victim was Pvt. Willis
Bunyan, about 20, whose illness
during the week-end was diagnosed this morning at Harrison base hospital here as 'acute polio,"
according to Atterbury public relations officials.
Meanwhile, the death toll this vear in" Indiana reached 36 with
fatalities at Muncie, and 342 cases were on the State Health Board list. :. . -. Dead were Mrs. Mary Engle, age 27, Winchester, wife of an earlier Randolph County polio fatality, and Frederick Vincent Perkins, age 24, Muncie. Mrs. Engle's death was the fifth' credited to Randolph and Perkins' was the fifth credited to Delaware County. Rushed To Hospital.,
i Bunyan was a member of Head
quarters Co., Third Battalion,
293rd Infantry Regiment. He be
New U.S. Berlin Military Commander Takes Over.
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BRIG. GEN. FRANK Ls IIOWLEY (left), who is resigning as U. S. military commander of the Am
erican Zone in Germany, briefs his successor, Maj. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, Chief of Staff ot tns European Command, on the Berlin situation. Gen. Taylor was at one time commandant at West Point (International Soundphoto.)
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Merchants Lose League Lead
The Merchants were dropped
out of the lead in the champion-
yesterday when, with two out
came ill during the week-end. At and tw0 on base and w5th, thf Harrison base hospital, his ail-, Merchants holding a 5 to 3 lead, ment was diagnosed and he was 'Agnew, the Prison substitute rushed to Percy Jones General first baseman, slammed a treHospital at Battle Creek, Mich, imendous home run into deep Atterbury officials said the ce"ter flteld to score a 6 to 5 win o-Qi i,iMi i h K.rvoob-Jand put the Prison nine into
area where Bunyan stayed would .fln Pce holding a half game
be sprayed with DDT. ; Meanwhile, a road blockade at Anderson was lifted yesterday
is known to a number of the local lodge members. Lodges comprising the Indiana -South District are Evansville, New Albany, Vincennes, Jeffersonville,
hours. During the period, Ander
son police stopped hundreds of automobiles en route to that city
from eastern Indiana points
Jimmie Evans had put the Merchants in the lead in the
eighth when he hit a home run wurTTwo on'TiaBSr- -' r " Next Sunday the Merchants will be playing at home when they meet the strong Pfizer
where polio was at its worst. Chemicals.
Mt. Vernon, Seymour, Madison, i They asked the occupants to go The Merchants now have their
Princeton, Bedford, Linton, Sullivan, Washington, Boonville, and Bicknell.
back home- unless they had "im-
State July Coal Production Drops
TERRE HAUTE, Aug. 8 As a result of the three-day work
week dictated by John L. Lewis. Prpirfpnt of the United Mine
awarded the Mort Roberts Trophy . WorkerSi. coal production in Indfor outstanding work in organiza- lana decreased 48 during the
backs to the wall as they have to
win all three of their remaining games to gain a tie for the league
portant business. Most of them did not. They were going to An
derson for week-end entertain- lead.
ment since public gatherings and Summary: R H E entertainment spots were closed Merchants 001 001 030 5 9 2 in Muncie and other Dolio-strirk-lPrison 100 000 203 6 6 2
en cities by a three-county health !Batteries: Merchants, Cooley
department order.
and Thewlis; Prison Williams,
Sheppard and Rexel.
tion programs. Evansville Voiture
471 got the child welfare trophy
pitals who are on special diets and LaPorte County Voiture the
would get any milk, however,
The union seeks $10 weekly wage increases for the 500 drivers, inside and office workers it
the per quart cost of milk would have to be made if the union's demands were granted, Stumpf said. The union, he added, has refused arbitration of the issue. No meetings between the union an any of the companies are scheduled.
Joins Airlift Airlift planes on their jour ney from Ambato brought in
jured victims for treatment in J Quito's hospitals. Government
and private planes both flew the airlift. Pan American Grace Airways planes joined the airlift and the president, A. B. Shea, said the full facilities of the airline had
been placed at the disposal of the Ecuadorean government. It was understood that th American Caribbean Air Command also would send planes from Albrook Field in the Panama Canal Zone to join the airlift. Air Force officials said the Caribbean command has standing orders to help in such emergencies. Some small tremors continued vesterdav. but of less intensity
than the series of 15 shocks that 'year ending June 30, according to
membership trophy. National Commander Perry Brown of Beaumont, Tex., speaks
tomorrow to share top billing
represents. The companies have with the election of officers.
offered an average of $4 weekly. Four candidates were in the An increase of 1 per cent in field for Denartment Commander.
They were Homer W. McDaniel, Dunkirk, a veteran of World War
County Students On Honor Roll LAFAYETTE, Ind., Aug 8 Six students from Sullivan County were among the 1,800 to win a place on the distinguished student list at Purdue University for the second semester of the academic
Berry Hurley, Daleville, and Jack Mclntire, Bloomfield, all veterans
of World War II. There aso were contests shaping up for vice-commander and sergeant-at-arms, but Harry E. Fitch of Terre Haute was unopposed for national executive committeeman.
four weeks ending July 30 as compared to the output during the previous four working weeks, according to the monthly report of the Coal Trade Association of Indiana released today. July production amounted to an estimated 1,112,000 tons compared to 2,139,000 tons during the previous period. Because Lewis refuses to "per
mit mines to operate except on
I; Clarence J. Donovan, Bedford;4 Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday,
leveled the area Friday. Several buildings in Ambato, weakened by Friday's shocks, collapsed as the new tremors hit them yesterday.
Former County Resident Dies
Word has been received here by Mrs. Charles Bostick of the death of Everett Fry of Wina- ' mac, Indiana. Mr. Fry was a
former game warden of Sullivan County and made his home with Mr. and Mrs. Bostick at the time. Funeral, services will be held on Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock in Winamac.
the list released from the office of C. E. Dammon, registrar and director of admissions. Fifty-three students attained a perfect six-point rating, making the highest possible grade in each
subject carried. To attain a place on the distinguished student list, a student must attain a grade point index
average of five or better in all subjects carried during the semester. - Sullivan County students attaining this .honor are as follows:
Ralph W. McClellan, R. R. 3; J. A. Campbell, 317 S. Main, and James R. Ammerman, R. R. 3, all of Sullivan; James R. Kent, R. R.
2, Shelburn; Richard P. Taylor,
R. R. 2, Farmersburg;. Jean R, Whitlock, R. R. i Fairbanks.
Contributions For
Shelburn Fund Donations to the Shelburn Community Club Tornado Relief Fund; American Legion Post 197, Shelburn, Sam Britton, Finance Offier $3800.25 Missionary Society of the Drake Baptist Church, Fairbanks, Ind., Mrs.
Edna Higbee, Treas. .
many producers are denied the right to operate three days a week. Miners not working on one of the three days because of temporary shutdown for repairs are not permitted to make up the lost time on one of the days after Wednesday. As a result, only some 27 rail mines in the state operated three full days during each week in July.
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MARRIAGE LICENSES
The following marriage licenses have issued by the county clerk. Patricia Albright, of Hammond
and Estn W. Moore, 'of Ham
mond. Helen Marie Keller, Farmersburg route 1, and James W Burns, of Sullivan route 1.
(okomo "Gunmen" Only Legionnaires
KOKOMO, Ind., Aug. 8 (U.R) Indiana State Police blocked
Swim Records Set At Shakamak JASONVILLE, Aug. 8 (UP) Jerry Smith of Kenosha, Wis., set a new national 200-meter Junior A., A. U. freestyle record yesterday in the 13th annual Shakamak swimming championships. Smith was clocked in f 2:22.2 minutes, chopping seven-tenths of a second from the record set by Charles Carroll of the Jacksonville, Fla., Air Station last year. His record highlighted the twoday squacade at Shakamak State Park, witnessed by some 10,000
spectators.
The Indianapolis YWCA and the
Kenosha Youth Foundation tied for top honors in the men's di
vision of the open competition, each scoring 12 points. On the distaff side, Riviera of Indianapolis won the team title with 33
points, followed by the Lafayette
Country Club with 25. , During Saturday's competi
tiori, Joe W. Burnett of Lancaster,
Pa., set a new unofficial record in
winning, the junior two and one
half mile event in one hour, two minutes and eight and one-half seconds. His mark was better than
Plan Award For Softball Player The Sullivan Junior Chamber of Commerce and K. B. Smith, Jeweler, are giving two softball trophies this year, one to be given to an individual and the other to a team. It is the second year that the Jaycees and K. B. Smith have joined in awarding the trophies. The individual trophy will foe given to the player receiving the most votes by the fans. Ballots for voting will be carried by The Times tonight, Aug. 15, 22, and 29. 'Voting must be done on one of these ballots. The deadline for voting is Aug. 81, two days after the last ballot appears: The awards will be given at the Legion Field on Friday, Sept. 2. Ballots may be sent in to The Times or may be handed to the men who make the collections at the softball games. Last year, Shang Moore, playing with the Kraft Foods team, won the individual award and the Carl Engle Clothiers won tha team trophy.
Victory Over Polio Believed Near By Nation's Scientists
Are polio research scientists making headway in the battle to prevent infantile paralysis from being- an an'nual threat to the children and adults of the United Spates. United Press Science Writer Paul F. Ellis reports great strides have been made. His interpretations are based cn a recent tour of the polio laborator!p! ; 'Cw,,,r'd with . trJrp to many of tie same laboratories three years agi. Following is he final f a series on polio research.
Bv Paul F. Ellis TTnifpfi. P" Science Writer NTKW YORK. Au". R rUPW Three vears ppo I visited th nati."n ton nnMo rwrrh laboratories and found thpre ,was a ia e hnnn that the disease wivild be conquered. The hone was based mostly on
Hr" itself. Todav, havin just returned
a 1934 official record set by a, from another swin? aronnd the Canadian but AAU spokesmen country visiting the polio labsaid it would not be listed as of-1 oratories. I found there still was
highways today on a report that ficial because of differences in hope. This time, it is hope based
a canoaa of bad gunmen" was pool measurements. ion fact and knowledge. Scien-
The Boys Central Club of Prov-jtists now ar rot (flipping. They idence, R. I., won the team title are on the right track, in the men's event while Riviera I There was a time when scien-
By Charles II. Turner United Tress Staff Correspondent HELENA, Mont., Aug. 8 (U.R)
The Northwest's worst forest
fire in 40 years still raged out of
control today after devastating 6,000 acres and killing 13 firefighters in 90 hours.
Ranger headquarters saia tne
blaze might be brought unaer
control this afternoon, but A. D.
Moir, supervisor of the Helena National Forest warned that a
strong breeze could wipe out all the last three day's work. The Montana fire is the largest of an estimated 75 blazes roaring through 18,000 acres cf forests and prairies in five North western states. f , Bring: In Supplies Over 500 men have fought it along a 27-mile pwlrefr it a region so remote that supplies must be brought by boat, pack train, trucks and airplaines. Rangers placed the number of firefighters throughout the fivestate area at over 2500 men. Some of the smoke-giimed men fighting the Montana blaza in the gates of the mountains region had gone 72 hours without sleep. But they threw all their strength yesterday into stopping two blazes started by lightning north of the main one. They brought the new fires under control last night. . The Montana blaze killed 13 firefighters over the weekend. They were trapped bv shifting winds anrl rprishprl in the flamps. Twelve of them had rtaracnted into virtually inaccessible Mann Gulch.
S"inke-Jumpers Die The other was a Pronnd ficMpr who had ioined them. The
imn j -rtVint?t-to ujofo mAmhfr nf n
po-d has hppn ohta nprf
From visiting the polio wards i in a tvpifal pnideiic area, such
as San Anpelo Tpyas. i
oaicm nun uiamiosis m mna crew 0f 15 forest service "smoke
were killed was so remote that I
cult. However, new teohniaup
are now beinf perfected that, will hein detent the ooi'o vimc in it? early, stages. A diagnostic test sp""t? fo bo comine up. The problem of vaccination 'n poUo anoears not vet solved, but with new knowledge "aine'l in tne last .three years, the scienfinding other direct routes which should lead them to the an""Pr. Ore nf the rior iril-Qh ments in research of the last 3
a 500 foot trail had to be hacked from the rock wall1? of a canyon to brine their bodies out. Forest service officials said the disaster was the worst in the 10year history of the smoke jumpers service. The fatalities were the first in th history of the unit. No other persons had been reported killed bv the fires. , Moir said higher humidity,
lower temperatures, and reduced
voars has been the development wind veiocity had auieted the of a technique o prnw the r,nH0 Montana bla 'e somewhat. ' virus outside -the human bodv. WAKm ho cnM "a SV,
mile front is still out of con-
shooting up the countryside,
The "gunmen" turned out to be fun-making American Legionnaires ehroute to a state convention. After the group of Legion veterans fired blank cartridges on the outskirts of Kokomo, alarmed citizens called police and the roadblocks were thrown up here and in the Logansport and Peru areas. Less than an hour later, the slightly red faced State Police lifted the roadblocks. The "gunmen" were reported nearing Ft.
Club won the women's race over the same distance. Kathlene Clark, Warren, O., who like Burnett, was
not attached to a team, was first
tists thought there were as many as 20 to 30 different varieties of nolio or infantile paralysis. Today, after a more concentrated
Mary Louzenia Hiatt, of Sulli
van, and Gerald Smith, of Shel-' Wayne, the Legion's convention
burn. ' I city this week.
among individuals in the women's 1 "search campaign, the scientists
race. have found only three varieties
of the disease. There may be others, the scientists point out,
but in studies of epidemics in various parts of the country since
1914, they have found only the th--o major varieties. All of that means, according to the scientists, that a much better understanding of the dis-
FILES COMPLAINT Norman L. German, doing business as -the Sullivan County Mo
tor Sales,- has filed a complaint
against Cecil Gipson and James
H. White in the Sujlivan Circuit
Court.
The virus a narasitp lives on'v in tho prfwono of iM,in pps and it was believed that the virus could grow and multiply onlv in the presence of nerve cells or brain tissue.' Now it has be"n learned that the virus can be grown with certain other types of human tissue cells. This is expected to lead to a mpans of orodweing large quantities of virus for vaccine purposes.
The over all research projects financed by the National Foun
dation for Infantile Paralysis, appear to be at a critical point--a point where several victories mav come. The one dark picture of the recent trip is the panic and hysteria that results in many communities stricken by polio. The experts on polio epidemics are confident that drastic community quarantines" are not necessary Polio cases are increasing now, but word from the research laboratories indicates that victory
over the disease is almost sight.
trol. If a strong breere shouM come up, the work of the oast SC hours would be wiped ,out in a few minutes."
PARKING MFTER COLLECTIONS GOOD Parking meter collections in Jnlv toialed slightly more than
$1 .800, Emil Muehler, city clerk-
treasurer said today.
SALVATION ARMY
The Salvation Army will pic up Tuesday of this week instead
of Thursday. Call 509 if, you wis! them to stop at your house.
OPENS AT TERRE HAUTE Miss Jean Cox,, a former musi: supervisor in the Sullivan school; is a member of the Joyce Ralpv
in Trio which opens tonight at tlv;
Manor House in Terre. Haute,