Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 51, Number 166, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 22 August 1949 — Page 1

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By United Press Hundreds of rangers and volunteers rushed by plane today to fight, eight major fires raging uncontrolled through 11,500 acres of Western woodlands. More than 2,200 firefighters were on the firelines in three states and forrest service officials said "the worst is yet to come." One unidentified fire fighter was injured. He was treated with supplies parachuted In by rescue plane. The fire centers were the Payette National Forest of Idaho, where 7,500 acres were burning out of control; Yellowstone National Park, Wyo., wnere four fires were burning througn 2.0(0 acres, and Escondido, Cal , who? e 350 men were fighting a 2,000 acre blaze. . Small Blazes

An additional 30 small blazes vere reported in Idaho, Wyyom-

fm, and Oregon over the week-

lend.

Officials said the situation was "very grave."

The outbreak of fires wa3 the

second to sweep destruction over Western forests in less tnan two weeks. The first, which broke out on the week-end o'c July 30-31, killed 15 persons including 12 of the forest seivice'f famed "smoke-jumpers' who had parachuted into the fight and were trapped by flames. All of today's blazes, rangers said,, were believed to hav3 been started by lightning striking in forests parched from high temperatures with low humidity and little rain. More than 50'j volunteers were recruited from Washington, Oregon and Northern California cud flown to the Payette forest, where a fire only last week lurned over 6,000 acres in Ida,hi's worst previous fire in dCis cades. Others Have I'ires The United States was not the only country suffering from forest fires. In France, forest fires that killed 78 persons and destroyed 125,000 a'cres of forests were

finally brought under "complete

control" by thousands of troops and volunteers. Several families were forced to' flee from their homes near Haliburton, Ont., where a forest fire was sweeping over 4,000 acres of Canadian wo-idlands. Officials directing the fighi against fires in the Western states used nine chartered commercial airlines and one Air force transport in the "firelift" that carried volunteers and rangers into the wood?. Other men were nu'ied to t!ie fire by bus.

(By United Press)

Violent earthquakes shook the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia last night but residents

reported only minor damage today.

Scientists said the shocks were 10 times as severe as the recent

earthquake which hit Ecuador. A Mexico City observator- re

ported another earth shock was

recorded about the same time as

the Pacific Northwest temblors.

It estimated that the quake was 2,900 miles southwest of Mexico City, either in Peru or the Pacific. Water Mains Broken. Seattle, still highly conscious of an April 13 quake which killed seven persons in the Pacific Northwest, reported two broken water mains, a cracked street, and broken dishes. Boats were torn from their moorings in Lake Union by waves stirred up by a shock which came at 10:15 p.m. CST and continued about eight seconds.

I In British Columbia to the I north, the shocks reportedly shat

tered dishes and windowpanes and drove persons from their homes. Overall, only minor damage was reported, although some alarmed residents hesitated to reenter homes which teetered during the quake. In contrast to the damage reports were the findings of seis

mologists. At Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., they said the

earth shocks were 10 times as se

vere as the quake which laid

waste to part of Ecuador Aug. 9.

At Fordham University, New York, a seismograph recorded

shocks at 10:09 p.m. CST and

10:15:12 p.m.

. The Harvard scientists said

that the quakes continued for six

hours. They said the epicenter of

the 'Shock' was in the neighbor? hood of the Vancouver Islands. Break Machines.

scientists at Dublin, tare, re

ported their seismographs re

corded a shock at 10:12 p.m. CST which was so violent that it put one of the machines out of action. They said the shock was centered around Alaska. It was believed to be the one felt in the Pacific Northwest. Seattle citizens, who called police and fire department numbers hurriedly, found that the principal damage done was in the cracking of two water mains near the shore of Lake Union, and the tearing of a hole six inches wide and four feet long in a street near the north city limits.

Buses Exceed Speed Limit, Reporter Says INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 22 -(UP) Indiana's 50-miles-per-

hour speed limit for busses is often violated, a newspaper writer said today after trailing coaches for a week over 420

miles of Hoosier highwavs. Victor Peterson, writing in

The Indianapolis Times, said he followed six busses after checking his speedometer with State Police.

"Only two drivers observed

posted limits and the 50 M.P.H. top," said Peterson. "Others whipped along at 60, some as fast as 65.

"Specific speed limits in ham

lets and cities meant nothing."

The Times published the story

under a four-column head on its

front page, explaining the check was made after 18 persJP3 were

killed in two Indiana bus accidents in the past 12 days.

- Follows Busses Peterson said he followed a

Pennsylvania Greyhound bus from Indianapolis to Richmond,!

another from Connersville to! Indianapolis, an Indiana Motor Bus Co. coach from Indianapolis

to Logansport, and Indiana Railroad bus from Peru to Indianapolis. All violated speed laws, he said.

A Pennsylvania Greyhound

from Indianapolis to Terre Haute

and a Great Lakes Greyhound

front . Indianapolis to Bloomington observed all speed regulations, Peterson said.

The latter followed the route of a Greyhound bus that crashed and burned at abridge abutment near Bloomington Aug. 10, killing 16 passengers.

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Funeral Held At Carlisle

County Teacher Institute Is

Funeral services were " conducted this afternoon at 2 o'clock at the residence in Carlisle for William L, Jones, 87 years old. who died at his home Friday night. Services were by the .Rev

John Sutch. Graveside service f,

were conducted by the . Carlisle

I.O.O.F. Burial was in the Odd I

Deiiows cemetery. V Mr. Jones was well-known throughout Sullivan County. He was a member of the Odd Fel

lows Lodge at Carlisle and ' a senior member of the Carlisle town board. -

Surviving are the wife, . Mae:

seven daughters, Mrs. Uda VanMeter and Mrs. Ethel .Hoover, both of Carlisle, Mrs. Mildred

Faught and Mrs. Wilma ' Mc-

Cammon, both of Sullivan, Mrs.

Blanche Sisson of Decker, Indiana, Mrs. Bessie Lester of Dublin, Georgia, and Mrs. Alice

Meeker of Robinson, Illinois; a son, Edward Jones of Carlisle; a brother, Charles Jones of Hazel-

ton. Indiana; eighteen grandchildren and seventeen great

grandchildren.

The Schulze Funeral Home

was in charge of arrangements.

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Fewer Polio Cases Reported In Indiana

Dennis Harrison, two-and-a half-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Harrison, of West Johnson Street, is not suffering from polio, attendants at Union Hospital in Terre Haute said today. The Harrison child was taken to the Union Hospital last Thursday. Although the diagnosis was negative, , he will remain in .the hos- . pital for further''' tests'" and examinations.

INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 22

erine's Hospital at East Chicago

16 hours after admission.

Only three cases were report

ed yesterday, compared with the

TODAY'S TEMPERATURES The unofficial temperatures in Sullivan today were: at 7;30 a.m 64 degrees at noon 80 degrees

RENTS HOUSE TO TEN TENANTS LOS ANGELES, Aug. 22 (U.R) Ten families tried to move into o single house at once, and sheriff's deputies began looking for George T. Gray today to explain. They said Gray collected advance rent of $1,000 from the "tenants" before disappearing.

"Slow Justice" Saves Lobaugh; Another Confesses To Murders

FORT WAYNE, Ind., Aug. 22 Colo., was sentenced to life im-

(UP) But for "slow justice,"

a "horrible mistake" may have been made when Ralph W. Lobaugh was sentenced to die for the slaying of three women in sexual attacks, attorneys and criminologists said today. . Twenty-eight months ago, Lobaugh walked into a Kokomo police station and confessed that he killed the women" here. Lobaugh was sentenced to die in February, 1947. He was still awaiting execution today. But another man was serving a life sentence for killing one of the women and a third man had confessed killing the other two. Authorities said it was one of the strangest cases on record. Franklin Click, age 30, father of five children who works on a

celery farm here, confessed during lie tests this weekend that he slew Anna Kuzeff and Wilhemina Haaga in 1944. , Those were two of, the women whose murders Lobaugh con-) ' fessed. The other woman was Mrs. Dorothea Howard, slain in 1945. Robert V. Christen of Denver,

prisonment on a second degree

murder charge last April in that

case.

In addition to the Kuzeff and

Haaga slayings, Click also ad

mitted that he killed Phyllis

Conine, whose murder in 1944

was never solved, and that he

kidnapped and raped Mrs. Simon

Sparks, age 19, last Wednesday.

It was the Sparks rape-kidnap that' snared Click., Officers who seized him on suspicion, noted that the crime took place

in the same neighborhood in the eastern part of Fort Wayne where Miss Conine, Miss Haaga

and Miss Kuzeff were killed. Mrs. Howard was murdered in a downtown alley.

Click refused lie tests at first,

tearing the electrodes from his body, but submitted Saturday af

ter his wife and Robert Buhler, Lobaugh's attorney, pleaded with

him.

He was questioned for five

hours Saturday and finally con

fessed the slayings yesterday. He said all of them occurred when

he attempted to rape the women

The confessions came only one day after Gov. Schricker had given Lobaugh his seventh stay

of execution.

Eight Persons Die In Weekend Traffic Wrecks (By United Press)

Hoosiers today counted at least

eight persons dead in week-end (UP) Indiana's 1949 polio totals

traffic accidents including a triple

fatality near Petersburg.

Three men were killed yester

day when their light truck was est county on the State

hit by a Southern Railroad train at a crossing 10 miles west of Petersburg. They were Jackie Ray Shepherd, age 19, and George Davis Gardner, age 24, both of Oakland City, and Kenneth Hume, age 18, of near Winslow. Authorities said Shepherd and GarflfieVaied in the truck which caugnf fire after being struck by the train. Hume was dragged for nearly half a mile by the train,

they said.

Otto Short, age 56, Muncie,

was killed when his automobile

struck a utility pole beside U. S.

35 northwest of that city yester

day.

In a similar accident Saturday

on Ind. 32 east of Muncie, Marion Johnson, age 30, a Muncie race

driver, was killed.

Frank R. Jacobs, age 78, was

killed at a railroad crossing in Mishawaka Saturday when he rode his bicycle in front of a Grand Trunk train.

Ruth Roland, age 21, Hardins-

burg, was killed when a car driven by her husband, William, crashed into the rear of a truck

10 miles west of Scottsburg.

Roland and their three-year-old

daughter, Evelyn, were injured.

.uavia a. ft.rieg, age 37, was

killed Saturday when a motor' cycle driven by his brother, Char

les, skidded and overturned east

of Tell City.

The annual Sullivan County

Teachers' Institute will be held

in the auditorium of the Sullivan High School on Thursday,

August 25, at 9:30 a. m., Jesse

M. Boston, county superintend

ent of schools, has announced.

Dr. W. P. Dearing, a former

president of Oakland City College, will be the speaker for the morning session of the institute. He is one of the, leading edu-

ators of the nation and has

been delivering addresses for a

longer period of time and over a larger area of the United States

than any. other public speaker. (The public is invited to hear

Dr. Dearing.

'Herbert Lamb, assistant super

intendent of Public Instruction

for Indiana will also address the

group at the morning session.

The Rev. Robert Martin of the

Sullivan Christian Church, will

give the devotions. School in the county will open on Friday for registration and

for book assignments. It is ex

pected that classes will start on Monday.

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BigSteeJSays,

Pay Increase Is Not Needed

today reached 501 cases and 51

deaths in 66 counties

Perry County became the lat- NEW YORK, Aug. 22 (UP)

Health. "Rio Stpol" contended todav that

Board's list and Marv Louise ' the steel worker is in the foreHarwood, age 9, Gary, the latest front of industrial workers and fatality. She died in St. Cath-ijias no need for a pay increase.

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mal" since the disease began' to the workers and to the whole

gaining headway the middle of economy

July. "Big steel" the United . States

But Dr. George M. Brother, 'steel Corporation of Deleware,

head of the board's Bureau of which controls companies that Preventive Medicine, warned a- produce one-third of the output

gainst optimism because of,, the and which has been the industry

light report.

The heaviest week of the cur-

compared with 84 in the week ending July 30 and 83 in the Aug. 13 week. For the week

ending" last Saturday, Aug. there were 80 cases.

The 50th death was that of

Robert A. Foltz, age 18, Evans-

ville, who died in St. Marys

Hospital at Evansville. It was presTdeht's 60-day truce under

4-H'ers Make

Sf. Louis Trip

One hundred and two 4-H'ers,

leaders, and parents, journeyed

to St. Louis Saturday, August 20,

to spend the day in seeing varl

ous points of interest. The group went by chartered bus, leaving

&umvan at 5:30 a. m. and return

ed at 11:30 o'clock Saturday night.

ine group first visited Forest

Park, enjoying the zoo located

there. Chimpanzee, elephant, and

lion shows took place in the

morning and afternoon.

Forty-three of the group went

to see the St. Louis Browns beat

the Detroit Tigers 5-1.

Alter me Dan game, the en

tire group went to an amuse

It told President Truman's steel fact-finding board that

wage patterns are bad. It said a fourth-round wage boost in steel

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MovementGrows in Finland

HELSINKI, Finland, Aug. 22 (UP) Government officials said today that a back-to-work movement was growing among Finland's 150,000 strikers despite Communist efforts to keep ,the country paralyzed with a general strike. Several grctips among the strikers have voted to return to work, including building trades workers who form the largest single group in the country-wide strike, officials said. More than 23,000 of some 25,-

000 striking lumbermen in north

ern Finland have voted against the strike, a Socialist Union official said, but it was not known when they planned to return to their jobs. Arrest Reds Police in the northern lumbering town of Kemi, center of the

lumbermen's strike, arrested three more Communist leaders

for agitating against the government. The new arrests raised to 22 the number of Communist leaders arrested there since

Thursday.

A Communist spokesman said that the Communist-led unions would defy an ultimatum by the non-Communist trades union federation. The ultimatum ordered the unions to return to work by tomorrow or be expelled from the federation. The Communist press insisted that the strikes, called Thursday with demands for . wage u increases ranging up to. -.30. percent, were increasing. However, all informed sources in Hel

sinki rejected this claim. J farm price support program, re- . A government official said the ciprocal trade, pay raises for the

oIWpH r.nmmnnist Dlan to create i Armed lorces and i eaerai

chaos and seize power "failed miserably."

By Merriman Smith United Press Staff Correspondent MIAMI, Fla., Aug. 22. (UP) President Truman today urged full approval of his economy-threatened foreign arms . program because, he said, Russia has blocked all efforts to "free the world from the fear of aggression." Its cost is "considerable," Mr. Truman told fellow veterans, but "it is part of the price of peace." "Peace with justice," he said, "cannot be bought cheaply." Mr. Truman spoke at the national convention of Veterans of Foreign Wars. As he did, his Congressional leaders were fighting to prevent the Senate from following the House's action in cutting $580,495,000 from the proposed $1,450,000,000 program to arm Atlantic Pact partners and five other nations. "We are not arming ourselves and our friends to start a fight with anybody," Mr. Truman said. "We are building defenses so that we won't have to fight."

Mr. Truman said he would

Congress Faces Long Session To Pass Program WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 (U.R) Congress was on notice today that it had better get busy on President Truman's program or resign itself to staying in session

until Thanksgiving. Senate Majority Leader Scott W. Lucas said "there are many important bills which must be brought up for action before we can take a rest." "We are not going to close the doors of Congress until we have reached decisions on these vital issues, even if we have to stay in Washington until Thanksgiving time," Lucas said in a radio talk carried by the American Broadcasting Company. .. Among the "must" legislation which Lucas expects The Senate to enact are measures dealing with the minimum wage, a new

had

to 20 which have be?n '.'ror-is certain to be a serious hazard

leader" in the stalemated negotiations with the 1 ,000,000-membeT

rent outbreak was the one end-. united Steelworkers of Am.?r

ing Aug. 6. There were 101 con- ica (CIO) closed the industry's firmed cases of polio that week, case before the - board with a

day-long argument. The three-man board must reDort to the President by Aug. 30

20 its recommendations for a "fair

and equitable" settlement of the steel dispute. .' The' '' union . has postponed va nationwide' jsteel strikp until Sept. 14 under the

the first 'death chargeable to

Vanderburgh County, though

two Illinois children have died in hospitals there.

Wabash County Saturday be

came the 65th Indiana County to ions

which' the board was set up. First Speaker -',The:first of' the U. S. -Steel speakers was John A. Stephens, yice-president for industrial rela-

Wjlliam Stark Gels Purdue U. Degree LAFAYETTE, Ind., Aug. 22. William Max Stark, of Hymera, was a candidate for a degree at the Commencement Exercises

held in the Hall of Music latuj-1

due University Friday night, Aug. 19, for students completing their work during the summer session. This was the third commencement program for the current calendar year, bringing the total number of graduates for the year to approximately 3,750. The summer class included 42 candidates for the doctor of philosophy degree, 151 for the master of science degrees and 441 for the bachelor of science degrees in the

various schools and curricula.

The address to the graduates was made by Dr. R. B. Stewart, vice-president and controller, and Dr. Frank C. Hockema, vice-president and executive dean, presided at the exercises and conferred the degrees. Stark was a candidate for the degree of master of science.

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ficials, and the basing point pricing system. He also said he expects the chamber to have one more go at the controversial civil rights legislation tnis session. Chairman Adolph J. Sabath, D., 111., of the House Rules Committee said, however, he believes the Democratic leaders will . soon give up their efforts to push through many, of the. President's

proposals this year. "We will get out of here sometime around the first of September," Sabath predicted.

report a polio case. The previous week ' there were 58 infected counties and in the week ending

Aug. 6, 54.

SOFTBALL VOTIN)G STILL OPEN Voting for the most popular player In the Sullivan Softball League continues with the voting blank appearing in tonight's Times. The number of votes received so far has been small, and all fans are urged to get behind their favorite player and send in votes. The blank will appear once .more, on Monday, Aug. 29. Deadline for casting a ballot is Aug. 31. Remember, voting must be done on blanks .appearing in The Times.

BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Mr. and Mrs. Karl E. Kirsclv

He asked the board to reach

the. following conclusions:

1. That pensions are not now

properly bargainable.

2. That no justification can be

found for further pay increases,

Canadian Mercy Plane Missing WINNIPEG, Man., Aug. (UP) A Canadian Air

22 Force

3. That "the parties should be mercy piane carrying id passen-

left to bargain collectively, gen-gers including polio - stricken uinely and in good faith, on a Eskimoes, and a" seven man crew

program of life, accident, health, was missing tocay on a ingnt medical and hospital insurance from Churchill, Man., to Winniwith the cost being shared equal- Peg. ly by employer and employee in Air Force officials said the accordance with the sound Plane took off from the Hudson's

It's Cold Outside

Fits State Weather INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 22.-4U.R) Temperatures dipped to unseasonably low points today in Indiana for the third day in a row. It was 50 at South Bend this morning and minimum readings ranged upward to 64 at Evansville. Yesterday's low mark was 48 at South Bend. At Indianapolis, a low of 52 was the lowest for any Aug. 21 in weather bureau history. Saturday low temperatures ranged down to 46 at South Bend. The weather bureau forecast little change in temperature today and tonight.

American principle of self , help."

The union wants a 30-cent

hourly "package" increase, split

into a wage boost, pensions, and social insurance. It will begin tomorrow a three-day rebuttal of the eight-day arguments presented by 58 companies.

FIRE DEPARTMENT MAKES RUN The fire department made

run shortly after noon today

Bay station at 9 p.m. (8 p.m.

CST) yesterday. Radio contact was broken at 10:55 p.m. (9:55 p.m. CST.) Two f)akotas took off from here at daybreak to search for the missing plane. The plane was carrying seven polio stricken Eskimoes to Winnipeg for treatment. Also on the plane was a nurse and a news-

a paper correspondent.

to ' " The plane had enough fuel for

MARRIAGE LICENSES The following marriage licenses have been issued by the county clerk: Mary Frances MacDonald of Paxton, and Max E. Nash of Sul-

llivan, R. 5. r

Melba Rose Boone of Sullivan, R, 5, and Charles M.' McCullough of Sullivan. Leora A. bailey of Coal City, and Donald G. Bolinger of Clay City. Delia L. Flath of Paxton, and Darrell Ray Pierce of Sandborn. Helen M. Heidenreich of Ind

ianapolis, and Willard O. Taft of

Indianapolis.

prefer that "these bulwarks against aggression" be established by the United Nations. "But," he said, "the Soviet Union has blocked every effort to establish an effective international police fprce and to free the world from the fear of aggression. For that reason, we have had to join other friendly nations in forming regional defense pacts." Mr. Truman described ths military assistance program and .

the European recovery program

as "part and parcel of tha same policy" to help 'free countries to resist aggression. ' Retard Economy . And, as for the economy side of the picture, he said economic recovery will lag "if the haunting fear of military aggression is widespread. Such fear will prevent new investments from being made and new industries

from being established.

"On the other hand," he continued, "if protection against aggression is arrused, economic recovery will move forward mora rapidly." - ; No single program, he said, can'brin'g about peace with f eedom and justice, nor can any single nation do it. "It can only be assured by tha combined efforts of the multitudes of people throughout ihe world who want a secure peace," he said. "They are our fr!and3 and they are friends worti having. We must keep them our friends if the world is to be a decent place for our chi'.dren and their children to liv? in." Need Allies "Many Rations which share our Democratic values and our traditions are working .with us," he said. "Without these Allies in the cause of peace, our task would be hopeless. We can win a permanent ppace only through the joint efforts of frae natnss striving toward the same objectives."

Mr. Truman said that while

"the principles of the United Nations are still our goal" ft became apparently shortly after the war that we "could not live up to all our hopes for it until

all nations were united in the desire for peace." .For this reason, he said, the

United States led the way by:

1. Approving aid to Greece and Turkey in 1947 which "preserved the integrity of both countries." 2. Initiating a program to

aid 16 European nations in 1943

by adoption of the Marshall plan which has "prevented general collapse in Europe." 3. Binding hemispheric ties in 1947 by signing the pact of Rio De Janeiro joining North and South America in a defensive alliance. 4. Signing the North Atlantic treaty "based on the principle that an armed attack to one mrmher nation is an attack on all." Then he said the fifth step "is to back up this principle with military assistance to European nations, and to certain other nations, which are unable to buf.d up their defenses without ou!side help."

713 South Main Street where a ten hours. It had both floats and

ner of Paxton, are the parents of small fire on a coal house was wheels. Air Force officials said

ment park and rode some of the a daughter, Karel Evelyn, born put out. It was reported that the it could have put down on one

starting I August 12th at the Mary Sher-.fire caught from a trash fire'of the many lakes dotting the

thrilling rides before

home at 5:30 p. m.

man Hospital.

1 nearby.. Little damage was done.lnorthland.

BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Ring of Centerline, Michigan, announce the birth of a daughter born August 2, at Holy Cross Hospital in Michigan. The baby weighed eight pounds and has been named Deborah Ellen. Mrs. Ring will be remembered as Jacqueline Shelburne.

PENNSY TO BEGIN SATURDAY CLOSING PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 22 ' (UP) The Pennsylvania Railroad said today its smaller passenger stations as well as freight stations will be closed on Saturdays after Sept. 1 when the, 40-hour work week goes into effect. "It is not feasible to operate freight stations and smaller passenger stations' on a six-day basis," the railroad said.