Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 51, Number 160, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 12 August 1949 — Page 1

3ULL1VAN COUNTY'S ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER

WEATHER FAIR SATURDAY Indiana: Less humid, cooler, and fair tonight and Saturday.

-VOL. 51 No. 160

UNITED PRESS SERVICE

SULLIVAN DAILY HMESf-" FRIDAY, AUG. 12, 1949.

INTERNATIONAL PICTURE SERVICE PRICE THREE CENTS

lit 5 Per Cent Probe, Heir About Freezers

By Warren Duffee United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aug. 12. (UP) Maj. Gen. Harry H,

Vaughan will ' appear before Senate investigators and tell

them about his relations with the capital's "influence sales-

men, it was learned today, .

Just when the President's military aide will testify was

not disclosed. It may be next week. But Chairman Clyde R. Hoey, D., N. C, of the Senate investigating committee told 'reporters Vaughan "has indicated a willingness to appear before the committee and testify at any time the committee desires." , " ' Committee members want to ask him about his friendship with "five per center" James V. Hunt, his successful .efforts to get a buildng permit issued for Tanforan race track, rerjorts that he received a deep freezer from employers of his pal John Maragon, and several other items linking him with others under investigation. That Vaughan will tell his story sooner cr later was dis- at the time as expediter of the closed as: firm's overseas business. j

Nobody Hurt in Crash; Plane Is Destroyed PORTLAND, Me., Aug. 12 (UP) A pretty stewardess -j-only two weeks on the job was hailed a heroine today after all 27 persons aboard escaped unharmed from a Northeast Air

lines plane that crashed and, breeding services in. Indiana, II

uumeu at ruruana mrpon. linois and Tennessee who use the

A sprained ankle suffered by

Breeders To Alfend Policy Heeling

On Monday morning,. Aug; 15 at 10:00 a.m. a representative of

the Sullivan County ArtificiaJ

Insemination Cooperative . will

meet with the Indiana Artificial

Breeding Association's A Policy

Committee at the Bull Stuc

Farm at Carmel, Indiana.

The policies of the Indianf

Artificial Breeding Association

are determined by their custom

ers, those bl cooperatives . and

I

1. A capital suffering from a severe heat wave buzzed over re

ports that several prominent government officials received deep . i'reezers from Maragon's former boss. Hoey said at least one of ithe persons mentioned in uncon- ' firmed gossip stemming from a . couple of Senators who wouldn't be quoted did not receive a .freezer. White House Press Secretary Charles G. Ross said he had "no information" about a published report that Mrs. Truman got one. Chief Justice Fred H. Vinson and Treasury Secretary John W. Snyder had no comnient on reports purporting to link their names with the freez- , ers. Endorses Hunt. 2. The committee heard testimony that Presidential Assistant John R. Steel man once endorsed Hunt the "five, per center" whose activities as- a procurer of . government contracts for businessmen started the .investigation. 3. Evidence was produced that Maj. Gen. Alden H. Waitt, chief of the Army Chemical Corps who is under suspension pending investigation of his relations with Hunt, once dictated a memorandum to Vaughan in Hunt's office. The memorandum was delivered to Vaughan's office by Hunt's secretary. Waitt's memo belittled . candidates for his job whom he had praised in official reports. Housing Expediter Tighe E. Woods has told the committee that Vaughan twice interceded for "friends" who bought the big track at San Bruno, Cal., in 1947. The track was being repaired at a time . when materials for veterans' housing were scarce. Woods said he issued the track permit on Jan. 13, 1948, just 24 hours after Vaughan called his office and said "please hurry," The deep freeze story caught the Committee unprepared to air It fully now. It "broke" yesterday when Albert J. Gross, a Milwaukee manufacturer who makes them, told of sending deep freezers to Vaughan and others. Pays For Freezers. Gross said the freezers were paid for by David A. Bennett, president of Albert Verley & Company, Chicago perfume concern for, which Maragon worked

Maragon. a one-time frequenter

at the White House, has figured

on the fringes of the Senate intvestigation from the beginning.

Hoey said that ultimately the complete story of the freezers wiK go into the committee record. But he said staff investigators do not now know all the details and that it is only fair not to air rum&rs as facts. Investigators want to find out who got the freezers, whether they kept them or returned them, and whether they ultimately reimbursed the donor. '

Dogger Football

egins

Football practice . at Dugger High School will begin Monday, Coach Gabe Takats announced today. Coach Takats has asked, all candidates for the Bulldog team to meet at the high school at 9 a.m. Monday morning for permits, physical blanks and equipment. Actual practice will begin that afternoon.

The Bulldog football schedule

hasn't been released as yet, but it is reported to be an attractive card. Last year the Bulldogs won nine of the ten games on the schedule. The opening game will be against Bloomington University at the Dugger field on Friday, Sept. 9.

the stewardess, 23 year old Patricia Donnellman, Quincy, Mass.,

was the sole casualty of what Up 0f 0ne member selected by

ponce aescriDea as a near dis- each oooDerative or breedine as-

semen from the association's high

index proved sires. . -

The policy committee is made

aster. Coincidentally, the accident occurred as Northeast Airlines ended 16 years' service without a

fatality.

The plane was destroyed at a

loss of $400,000.

Opens Exit

Miss Donnellman opened an

sociation purchasing semen from

it. Various matters of policy ar

discussed and voted' upon by

these representatives. With more and more breeder looking to the progeny test a: the surest way of choosing sires to improve their herds, and with artificial breeding being used to

I 1 Vt..ll'0 irtViavHrtnta q

emergency exit after the twin en--""1"" "1C "u w ,,,7 "

Sine Convair crashed while landing. The plane, on a scheduled

flight from Boston, carried 24 passengers, including a month-

old baby and three crew mem

bers.

An airline spokesman said

Hpot. Roderick O. Cote age 40,

Melrose, Mass., the pilot, report

ed the plane's propellers unaccountably reversed as he made a

outine approach to the field. The plane veered sharply

downward and hit the field at an angle, collapsing the landing

jear. The craft skidded down the 'ield and flames broke out as parks from the friction ignited n oil line on the bottom of the fuselage. Flames blocked one emergency exit and the disrupted hydraulic vstem failed and locked the main door. Miss Donnellman ran toward another emergency exit, hnntin" for the passengers to follow her. Nobody HurtThere was no panic as the

passengers rapidly left the craft under Miss Donnellman's direc

tions. Nobody was hurt. Witnesses said those aboan the plane had about two minutes to get out before the flames ignited spilled gasoline and spread around the craft's fuselage.

"Both doors, front and rear, were jammed," Miss Donnellman said. "I had to push open a small exit that's used for freight., The passengers moved out rapidly

once the emergency door was

open." The passengers included 17 from New York City who transferred to the Convair at Boston

Mrs. Nellie Kable Funeral Sunday Funeral services for Mrs. Nettie Kable of Sullivan R. 3, who died at the Mary Sherman Hospital Thursday will be conducted Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Railsback Funeral Home. The, Rev. J. M. Smith will officiate. Burial will be in the Center Ridge Cemetery. The body will lie in state at the funeral home.

NOTICE The Barbershoppers will meet for practice Saturday night, at 9 p.m.

Big Game Hunter Thinking Of Gooseville Monster Safari

, By Anthony Ullstein United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Aug. 12. (UP) Capt. Hassoldt Davis,, African explorer, said today he was thinking of heading a safari out to Gooseville, 111., to trap the "monster of Gooseville" for a New York fur company, which wants to make a fur coat out of it. : The Canadian Fur Company, which earlier offered $350 for the monster's pelt, asked Davis if he wouldn't catch the critter as he , caught gorillas during his ' last four African expeditions. "I'd be glad to take a whang at it . . . sounds like, an interesting thing to do," Capt. Davis said, in clipped British accent, at his

Park Avenue home. "First I'd want to make sure it isn't a wild Gooseville chase, though," he added. He said he's thinking of getting in touch with the mayor of Cooseville, sending a man up to take a look at the monster's tracks, and generally satisfying

himself that "it isn't a hoax put

up by the Chamber of Com merce." '

"No sense going off half-cocked

at a thing like this," he said

"Explorers' Club wouldn't like

it."

If he does strike out for Gooseville it will have to be soon, he

said, for on Sept. 25 he's leaving on his fifth African expedition this time to French West Africa.

lunty Artificial Breeding As

sociation is helping to improvf the dairy herds of Sullivan County by making available the service of high index proved sires from the Indiana Artificial Breeding Association at a cost that all farmers can afford.

Owners Reject Shutdown In Mine Dispute WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. Va., Aug. 12. (UP) Soft coal operators today officially rejected a proposal to close down their mines to force John L. Lewis to expand the three-day work week imposed on the industry east of the Mississippi. They announced rejection of the shutdown weapon proposed by some segments of the industry after United Mine Workers negotiators-refused for a second time to agree to renewal of the old contract until March 31, 1951, without any changes in wages or working conditions. ,

Both sides agreed that the operators' action wiped out any threat of widespread mine idleness next Monday. Then they-re cessed their wage-hour' conferences here until Aug. 23. The threat of a shutdown arose originally from the contention of the producers that their old contract with the union will expire

and four whose flight originated on Sunday and that they then!

at Boston. The other three were wouia ue nee iu iuu uyciauuns u.

they wished. They contended that the contract remained in effect

under theTaft-Hartley law for 60 days after Lewis gave notice of termination. Lewis holds that the agreement expired last June 30 when he ordered a three-day week pending the writing of a new contract.

"Now that our present agree

ment is actually expiring this

Golden Arrows

coin Football

Practice Monday Sullivan's Golden Arrows will open their 1949 football practice Monday at Sportland Field. . The Arrows, apparently on the upgrade after a couple of poor

seasons, will have almost five

weeks to get ready for their first

game. The Arrows open at Wash

ington against the Hatchets on

Friday, Sept. 16.

Coach Bill Jones, assisted by

his new assistant Pooch Marsh and by Coaches Bill Lucas and

Harry Jarrett who have assisted for the past two years, will have

a rebuilding job on his hands.

In the backfield he will have

Don McClure and Vaino Grayam

vho will be juniors this year, "opk from last year's team. Cal

Hilgediek, who did about everything for the Arrows last year

ind who made the All Valley

team, will be gone. Little George

Wolfe and George Rasky are al so gone.

In the line, the problem will

be to find ends. Alabam Kirch-

ler may get one flank position

but another must be found. Ben

Wernz, another All Valley play-

graduated last spring. The middle of the line will be

less of a problem. Jack Raley one of the better centers in thes parts is back, and Frank, Pound

Jack Philips, Jack Gettinger and Bob Boston will be ready fo; duty.

As has been the case for th'

past few years, Coach Jones wil"

be plagued by a lack of reserve strength. .

Two practice sessions a day

will be held, beginning' at 9:31 a.m. and 3 p.m.

The. schedule is as follows: Sept. 16 Washington, there Sept. 23 Garfield, there Sept. 30 Gerstmeyer, here Oct. 7 Brazil, there Oct 14 Wiley ,here ' ' ,' Oct... 21 Clinton,, there ' . -Oct. 28 Bicknell, here '

4 Vincennes, there 11 Linton, here

Grand. Jury May Probe Bus Crash lear Blooinington; Driver Drowsy, One Witness Testifies

Nov. Nov.

Banker Warns

Against Steel Pay Increase

State Polio R

elow Average,

Board Reports

airline employees. All had to jump two feet to escape from the stricken craft.

Merchants To Play Pfizer Here Sunday j The Merchants will be playing before the home fans next Sunday after being away for the past two weeks when they tangle with the Pfizer Chemicals in a league contest. The Merchants will be striving to get back in the victory column

after their loss to the Prison

nine last Sunday. The Chemicals are holding the

number three slot in the league standings, having won 7 while losing 4.

In their last meeting, the Mer

chants defeated the visitors, 6 to

0, although collecting only one hit off Cottom, crafty little lefthander.. He probably will be on the mound again Sunday. Cooley probably will be Mgr. Taylor's choice Sunday to start he game and Thewlis will be doing the catching. Owing to the Baseball Tournament of the Miners' Picnic, be

ing held at Terre Haute, the

Merchants may not have the ser-

Going to the Ivory Coast to vices of Bill Shipman and Jim

cool off" he explained. "I've v"uer r ounoay s game.

urcuue biiiic ouuudy ja p.m.

been in many places along the equator, but none of them is as unbearable as New York in the summer." ' He said about half a dozen experienced people should, be

enough for the Gooseville expedition. "We'd use native beaters, as we do. catching gorillas in ' Afri

ca," he said. "Goriljas clear a tubular path iri the underbrush, and the beaters set up a racket

By H. D. Qulffff United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Aug. 12 (UP) An investment banker charged today that new wage increases for 1,000,000 steelworkers could set the nation "off to the races on the fourth' leg of our post-war inflationary binge." i John M. Hancock of New York, warned the Presidential steel fact-finding board that granting the 30-cents an hour package de-

week, we could revert to the law.mands of the United Steelworkof the jungle and close our mines1 prs (CJO) would confront the nauntil such time as the union ;tion with higher living costs and

would give up this control-of-production theory and limit its

activities to wages and working conditions," the operators said in a statement.

"However, we are unwilling to

serious unemployment. Hancock,, head of a large in

vestment firm and director ' of many large corporations, led off the steel industry's second day of arguments before the board try-

suggesf 'that course and thus have ng to avert a nationwide steel

me operators laite me responsi- strike

Dimy 01 inconveniencing and in

juring the consumers of coal on

whom both operators and miners are so totally dependent."

Work When Possible,

INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 12 (U.R)

Indiana's polio count jumped to 402 today with the addition of

three new cases but statistics revealed that the death rate since Jan. 1 is below that of a 13

year period.

Dr. George M. Brother, direc

tor of the State Board of Health's

Bureau of Preventive Medicine,

said 340 Hc-osiers died of infahtile paralysis between 1936-48 out of a total of 2,882 cases. He

mid the fatality rate was 11.8 :er cent, corresponding with 10.4

so far this year.

None Fatal None of the reported new cases

were fatal, leaving the death toll at 42 for the year. Delaware,

Marion and Tipton Counties re

ported one new case each. For Delaware, second only in the number of cases among the 92

counties, it . was the 50th case. Jay County leads the list with 64. But Jay has not reported a new case in the past three days.

The Marion County roster now

stands at 26, and that of Tipton at four.

Latest fatality was that of

Charles William Snyder, age 17,

Vnderson, youth who died at the

Robert Long Hospital here yes

terday.

It still was not known, how

ever, whether polio was increas

ing or decreasing in the state. 1

Drr Brother said no trend had

been established. And the health service in Washington, D.C., said

the peak might not be reached

int.il sometime after mid-Sep

tember.

Steady Increase During the first stages of the

outbreak, state health officials said the peak might be reached around g. 1. A steady increase has continued since then.

"The number of reported cases

may go up or down some each

day for a while," Dr. Brother

said. ,

The eight cases yesterday were

below the 15 per day average, but added to the 24 reported on Wednesday pulled slightly ahead

of normal. Cases reported yesterday included four from Vanderburg County, two from Delaware and one each from Clinton and Grant Counties. Authorities in Jay County, the hardest hit area in the state, noted a slight decrease and partially lifted the 12 day old ban on public gatherings. Jay had '64 cases, Delaware 50 and Randolph had 33 cases.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Aug. 12. (UP) Coroner Robert E. Lyons today said he thought there should be a grand jury investigation of the Greyhound bus wreck and fire which claimed 16 lives early Wednesday morning. But Monroe County Prosecutor Robert McCrea said he didn't think a grand jury hearing was necessary. McCrea said . he had advised Lyons to make public the statements he has taken from four survivors of the accident and to return an "open" verdict, not specifying the cause of death. Lyons said'he went to Evansville last night to inter-' view Wilbert Luttrull, an unemployed truck driver who was ; a front seat passenger on the death ride. Luttrull said Bus Driver Wayne Cranmer, age 25, Indianapolis, was acting drowsily just before the accident. Cranmer denied the charge in a statement he gave to Lyons yesterday.

"Luttrull told me since Cranmer didn't turn the wheel, 'he was bound to be asleep,' ". Lyons said. The stories conflicted on whether the bus swerved into the bridge abutment when a right front wheel or tire failed, as Cranmer said. Luttrull said there was no ab-

Rev. Bob Martin Union Church Service Speaker

The Rev. Bob Martin, of the Johnson Bible College, Kimberlin Heights, Tenn., will be the euest sneaker for the sixth Union

Church Service at the City I Indianapolis and Bloomington

Park Sunday night at 7:30 p.m.

rupt change in the bus' direction immediately before the accident.' Luke Shute, age 50, Bloomington, who was riding in the front1 right hand seat of the bus with Luttrull substantiated his account. Had Clear View Shute, interviewed at Indianapolis, said bright moonlight gave him a clear view of the road just before and at the time , of the accident. . "Just before the crash," Shute said, "the bus was way over on; the right side of the highway. I was sure we were going to hit. the abutment for at least 45 or 50 feet before we struck it. I wasn't looking at the driver, but I didn't feel any sudden move-" ments of the bus just before the crash." , 1 Shute said Cranmer had been doing a "good job" driving over the hilly, curving road between

The Rev. Martin is the guest speaker for the Christian Church Music for Sunday's ' services, which are sponsored by the Sul-

i livan " Church Council, will be

provided by the Presbyterian Church, under the direction of Mrs. Robert Springer. Jesse M. Boston of the Baptist Church, will be in charge of devotions for the service, and William Thompson, of the Methodist Church, will be the platform manager.

arlisle Sells onds To Build

ater System

The bonds for the construction

To Rehite Claims

Scheduled to follow him was

Dr. Jules Backman. New York University economics professor,

They said that since "there ap- who was expected to try to re-iof a municipal water works in

pears to be no law to prevent the" fute claims by union economists Carlisle have been sold, the Car-

union from continuine" th thr-l that the industry can easily . lisle l own board has announced,

day week, each operator must de- raise wages, grant pensions and

termine his own policy. They stlU cut steel prices.

added that most companies . are expected' to operate "as many

An increase in steel wages,

Hancock said, would mean an-

uo's f we employes ther r9und of wage increases report to work. for aU industry, the fourth since George H. Love, president of wnP

me t-insDurgn uonsoiiaation Coal

TODAY'S TEMPERATURES The unofficial temperatures in Sullivan today were: at 7:30 a.m 74 degrees

at noon ....... .. . 86 degrees

BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT

Mr. and Mrs. Bynum Alsman,

Jr., of Pleasantville are the par

with tom-toms and such. Gorillas ents of a son, Robert Paul, born get panicky and run into nylonjAugust 11 at the Mary Sherman

nets. Nylon s tougher." Hospital.

Co. and chief management negotiator, said there will be added risk after Sunday to continued payment of 20 cents-a-ton con

tributions to the union welfare and retirement fund.

But, he. explained, these pay

ments will not be due and pay

able and no actual money will

change hands until Sept. 20. Thus,

he said, the crucial decision of

whether to continue the $60,000,000 in annual payments to the

fund will be put off until , that

time. - . j The added risk would consist of possible huge Federal tax liabilities if the fund payments

should be ruled non-exempt for, the pattern for a nationwide

tax purposes. wage boost,

The most important factors for the board to consider were the

"certain inflationary aspects of a

wage increase and the conse

quent danger to the entire econ

omy," he said.

"Once again we are hearing the siren song that wages can be raised . substantially without a

corresponding rise in our cost and price structure," he said.

Hancock said the inflation threat is "just as obvious now" as in

1946 when steel price increases "spilled over into other industries." In that year steelworkers won an 18 cent increase that set

Mrs. Addie Trimble Dies At Hospital Mrs. Addie Mae Trimble, age 67, of Carlisle R. 2, died yesterday at the Mary . Sherman Hospital. She was a member of the Mt. Zion Church. Surviving are the husband, Scott; two daughters, Mrs. Lelia LaDune of Carlisle R. 1, and Mrs. Audrey Brust of Elwood, Indiana; two sons, Medford Trimble of Carlisle R. 1, and Herschel Trimble of Carlisle R. 2; two sisters, Mrs. Effie Douthitt and Mrs. Allie Watson, both of Carlisle, and three grandchildren.

before the accident.

Cranmer told the coroner that Bill Ellerbrook, Evansville, a passenger in the first seat behind the driver had been talking to him most of the trip from Indianapolis. . ... i. . L Neds To Answer Cranmer said occasionally he replied to Ellerbrook by nodding his head instead of answering out loud, and that other passengers might have thought he was nodding drowsily. Ellerbrook, whose parents were among the 16 victims, confirmed this, the coroner said. The 16th victim of the crash, Dale E. Aikman, age 30, a soldier from Camp Campbell, Ky., died yesterday. His wife and two children died in the flames that enveloped the bus 'after the crash. An investigation of the accident was hampered by the almost complete destruction of the bus. All four tires were burned away. Thirteen Escape Thirteen persons escaped the flaming wreck. Lyons said the body of Charles Raymond, age 77, Evansville, was identified positively by the victim's son, Ralph Raymond of Lewiston, N. Y., ' through the elder Raymond's dental work. Identification of Vernon Trisler, age 30. Bedford, hinged on Army dental charts which authorities requested be sent here. Those , identifications left two charred unknown bodies still under shrouds at the temporary

The body was returned to the residence from the Newkirk Funeral Home where it will lie in state. Funeral services will be

conducted Sunday afternoon at morgue set up in the National 2:30 o'clock at the Mt. Zion Guard Armory. ' church with Bro. Jess Michael of-1 Both were male adults, Lyons ficiating. Burial will be in the said, one about 50 years old and I.O.O.F. Cemetery at Carlisle. the other about 30.

and work is slated to begin in the near future.

A total of $170,000 in bonds

have been sold to the Cincinnati

Municipal Bond Corporation, and the Fox, Reusch & Company, both of Cincinnati; the Hughes

and Company, of Indianapolis, and the Ravensport and Company, of Cedar Rapids, la. A contract for building the system had been let last spring to the Ralph Green Construction Company, of Vincennes, and another contract for the water tower had been awarded to the Pit-tsburg-Des Moines Steel Company. The Green bid was $122,-

255.50 and the steel company's

bid was $20,200.

A well has been drilled on

land seven miles west of Carlisle

and is pumping better than 500 gallons a minute. The quality of the water meets all the requirements of the State Board of Health and the quantity is regarded as enough to supply the demand.

ig Blow About To Begin For

The Hayfever Sufferers

By Rex Naylor United Press Staff Correspondent COLUMBUS, O., Aug. 12. (U.R) An estimated 300,000 hay fever sufferers in the United States today were preparing tor the big blow. Come Aug. 15 and a noisy, noseblowing chorus will whip out handkerchiefs, especially in the belt from Kansas to Ohio where ragweed poUen is heavily concentrated. From then until the first frost, they will be sneezing at irregu

lar but persistent intervals.

Dr. Jonathan Forman, president

of the American College of Allergists, estimated here that about 10 per cent of the population has a predisposition for allergies, roughly two or three per cent are hay fever victims, he said. Ragweed is the worst offender. It reaches the pollination stage about Aug. 15. But certain

trees, grasses and weeds also scatter sneeze-producing pollen, Dr. Forman said.

The allergy specialist said the unfortunate victim can do three things about the hay fever problem: 1. Grin and bear it. 2. Take a long vacation in the mountains where ragweed pollen can't get to you. Not just any mountains, but certain areas' free of pollen such as the mountains in the northern part of Michigan. 3. Take a year-around series of pollen shots aimed at building

up resistance. Taken over a period of time, these shots afford a high percentage of permanent relief to hay fever victims. ' "

"Nose filters bring relief in

some cases," he said, "if you can

keep your mouth shut." Other

wise the pollen goes straight to your lungs and may help start a

cold.