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UNITED PRESS SERVICE

SULLIVAN DAILY TIMES THURSDAY, AUG. 25, 1949.

INTERNATIONAL PICTURE SERVICE PRICE THREE CENTS

nfi'l: Other Fires

House To Take Vicalicnln

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Spite Of S

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(By. United Press)

A forest fire broke through lines of 1,700 men today and

devastated 24,000 acres cf stately Douglas firs and Ponde rosa pines in the Payette National Forest of Idaho.

Brisk winds over northern California also sent a fire in

the Stanislaus National Forest raging out of control in the

Sierra Mountains 200 miles east of San Francisco. '.. But ether dangerous fires in South Dakota, New England and Canada were being battled down by thousands of Volun

teers, rangers and foresters who had fought the blazes for

almost a week. The big fire in the Payette Forest advanced over 6.Q00 acres rf timberland in. the Circle End Creek area within a few hours last ; night and U. S. Rangers called for hundreds - of volunteers to reinforce the firelines. Some of the firefighters were sent from the Stratton Meadows and Warm Springs. Ida., areas where fires were brought under control yesterday. May Release Men Another 'big blaze was being fought to a standstill in " 7,500-foot-deep Hell's Canyon of the

Payette Forest and foresters hoped some of the men fighting That fire could be released to the Circle End Creek fire today. J ' The fire in the Stanislaus! Forest was declared out of control on three sides and two helicopters were ordered to fly men and supplies to the aid of the 600 men battling the- flames. It had been confined previously to 4,000 acres of oak and brush but jumped the Tuolumne River last night and advanced to an area covered by dense and highly-inflamable pine. Flames threatened to destroy the Tuolumne Ranger Station. Additional state forestry crews nls-o were raced to the scene of 7 fire destroying 5,000 acres of flight 1 timber and brush near 'OceansideV Cal.. Winds Vf - ,' Pacific -vOcean - hampered ."".600

Marines and 500 civilian .volunteers who reportedly had the

blaze 80 per cent under control. Fire Is Stopped f" -Fire fighting teams in New (.England were in critical condition due to dryness. However, scattered fires in the dense , woods of Northern Maine were i considered generally under control. ; Fires that swept many forest areas of Ontario and Quebec also ;were being stopped or extiniguished. i c : jyiivanfkse Renamed To Board i INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. Srv-i'U.R) I Governor Schricker today named Sister Bernadette, Koko,mo, to succeed Sister Miriam iDelores, Anderson, on the State .Board of Registration and Examination of Nurses. ; Schricker reappointed Miss jDotaline E. Allen, Sullivan, to ithe board. The appointment and reappointment were effective tot-morrow.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 (U.R) Speaker Sam Rayburn announced today that the House is going on a month's vacation starting tomorrow whether the Senate likes it or not. . Without cracking a smile, Rayburn told reporters ha didn't like to see any lack of .friendship between the Representatives and Senators, "but v.e are touig away anyhow." The Senate; which is far behind in its work, yesterday rejected, 53 to 25, a resolution to let the House leave town until Sept. 21. It takes the consent of both Houses for either one to recess for more than three days. But the House leadership has thought, up a way to get around Senate objections. Rayburn said if the Senate doesn't change its mind, House Democratic Leaders will bring in a simple House resolution authorizing three-day .recesses for four weeks. The Senate, beaten resolution Would, have made the three-da recess arrangement unnecessary.

Indiana Polio Deaths Increase INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 25 (U.R) The polio death toll in Indiana stood at 53 today following two more fatalities, arid, an additional 14 cases brought the incidence to 547 this year, State Health Board officials said. No new counties were added to the rolls, however, and the county list . remainetT at 66 of the 92. Latest reported deaths were Mrs. Ruby Nixon, age 26, Evansville, and Mrs. Ruth Henry, age 47, Brownsville (Union Co.), who died at Camdan, O. Mrs. Henry was the oldest Hoosier to die of polio this year. Ages of the dead previously had ranged from 37 down.

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I BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smoldt of 315 West Graysville Street, are ithe parents of a daughter, Karen ' Sue, born August 25th at the

.'Mary Sherman Hospital.

FILES SUIT FOR DIVORCE Betty Hudson has filed a suit for divorce against Charles Hudson in the Sullivan Circuit Court.

TODAY'S TEMPERATURES The unofficial temperatures in Sullivan today were: at 7:30 a.m. . . 70 degrees at noon 88 degrees

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uman Offers Olive Branch To

S Sooiherners - But At His Terns

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By Dean W Dittmer t United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aug 25 (U.R) '--Preiident Truman held out an J olive branch today to the Southerners W(0 bolted the -Demo-l cratic ticket last year. . ! He invited them to come back i into the patty fold. But he warned them thav their return must he on1 his terms not theirs. "The Demooatic party is a national party, xnd not a sec- ." .tlonal party any more," hi said. f'The tail no longer wags the dog." ;. i Mr. Truman spoke at a dinner of the Democratic national committee last night. At a ' one-day meeting yesterday, the committee ousted five Southe-n ;;upporters of the anti-Truman ''States' Righters" ticket last fall, and elected William M. Boyle, 'Jr., of Kansas City to succeed Attorney General J. Howard McGrath as its chairman. 1 a Mr. Truman endorsed the ouster of the five rebels. But he

made it plain that this does not mean Southern leaders are forever barred from, high party councils. ! "We won the national election 'ast November without New York, without the industrial. East and without the Solid South," he said. "I am prouder accomplish in the next two years.'' "And that doesn't mean that we are not inviting the industrial East and S"olid South and all the rest of the country to join the party of the people and help the country go forward. That is exactly what we want, and that is exactly what we are going to accomplish in the next two years. The States' Righters were not impressed with the invitation. They contended that they never left the party that the . party left them. And if the Democratic platform and ticket in 1952 does not please them, they said," they will put up their own candidates, just as they did in 1948.

Last Solute Planned For Vets Of Civil War

INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 25 (U.R) The Governor of Indiana asked 500,000 residents of this city today to suspend business for an hour and ring church . bells in tribute to six Civil War veterans attending the last encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic. - . '; , Gov. Henry F. Schrfcker called for 'the tribute to be paid during a twilight parade at 6:30 p.m. next Wednesday, last day of the 83rd ; annual - encampment ; that ends the GAR forever. ' . Six of the 16 surviving Boys in Blue, last bastion of an organization that once numbered 400,000 members, are planning to attend beginning Sunday if health permits. ' .. - , Final Salute. They ranged in age from 100 to 108, the extremes being "old" James A. Hard, Rochester, N. Y., and "young" Theodore Penland, Portland, Ore., national Commander in Chief. - Schricker, in a proclamation issued from the Hoosisr State-

house where the GAR was orig

inated in 1866, termed the meeting the last "earthly encampment of the vets." He urged suspension of all business activities in the

:ity as a final salute. The veterans will ride in separate open cars along a route that ends on -Monument Circle,

where a tall memorial shaft honoring the dead of early United

States wars forms the heart of

the city. - ' '

Rescinds Order Mayor Al Feeney, a former Notre Dame football' star undor Knute Rockne, came to bat last nieht for the white-haired ex-

soldiers when he rescinded a city safety board order banning the paraders from one section of the Circle. ". A "They' can march around .the Circle 10 times if they want to,"

Feeney said. . ";

At Portland,' Penlard gathered

his battle ribbons ana his cane

anJ caught a train for a three day trip with his grandson to tne encampment city. He plans to

arrive Saturday to help with the last minute arrangements for the

convention beginning next day.

Annual Swine j Bay On Sepf. 16 I; County Agent O. K. Anderson announced today that the annual

I Purdue Swine Day will be held ; at the Purdue University Livestock Farm. Friday, September

Ifi TViie mill Vio tVio OQIVi i irk

year that the Swine Day. -has MUPj-Hoosier business in July

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noosier Business

In July Slips To Low Point

BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Aug. 25

been held. The farm is located three miles north of West Lafayette on the County Farm Road.; Prof. C. M. Vestal, who ' is i4 charge of all swine research; will be in charge of the meeting; Trnirc will Kocrin nt R-3ft .a mrv

and continue throughout ' tl '?he state 'was lower in -July than

morning. Oftriou? stops will b4

slipped to its lowest postwar

point since August, 1947, the Indiana Business Review said

today. ' "Preliminary figures reported to the I. U. Business Research Bureau indicate that business in

' made on different kinds of "pas?

tures and comparative gains' WilJ he discussed on all different legumes. - f Visitors will have an opportune ity to inspect the swine breeding"

work which is being done :.witlj

hybrid hogs at the university: y Claude Harper, Chisf of . the Animal Husbandry Department of Purdue, will be in charge of the afternoon ' program, whicl will begin at 1:30 p. m. in the Livestock Pavilion. .. f Prof. Vestal's topic will be, "The Influence of Exercises ' on the Rate and Economy of . Gaii of Market Hogs." Dr. G. Ch Mott's topic will be, "A Co.r.pprison cf Alfalfa and Lad mi) Clover as Pasture for Hogs"; Drj W.- M. Beeson's 'topic wU bi "ResDons'of Pigs to the Animal Protein Factor": and E. J. Warrick, "Current Progress in Swine Breeding Research." - .'.

Ruben C. Sfoul

Funeral Friday

m any month . since August.

1947," . ' the monthly . magazine said. " , ' The review blamed the reduction in coal output due to the three-day work-week for the decline in business, because small declines in other businesses were offset by gains in

other industries. ' "The possibility of a work itepi age in the steel industry has brought about an inventory accumulation on the part of the principal users of steel," the Business Review said, "and in turn is no doubt increasing purchases on the part of many other users and distributors of durable goods. - ' "If no significant work stoppage occurs in the steel industry, present inventory accumulations will be reflected in smaller pur-

Truman interested in Trip By Maragen, Wangftan Said To Set Passport For Perfii'me-Buyer, r

Wife Of Slayer

Who Confessed

esks Reward

FORT WAYNE. Aug. 25 (U.R)

The 23-year-old wife of a

confessed triple slayer today

claimed a $16,500 reward for his

arrest and conviction because

she gave police his confession. Mrs. Marie Click demanded the reward in a letter to Police Chief Lester Eisenhut which accompanied the confession. Police said her husband, 30-year-old Franklin Click, confessed three' 1944 murders Sunday night after a five hour lie detector investigation. Writes Wife "My dear wife," Click wrote, "I want you to be the first to know and learn from my own

products ih the fourth quarter." ? that 1 jm f murderer. I am Newspaper advertising lineage, e one and only one guilty and

showed a little improvement

over June figures, but total volume was somewhat, less seasonally than in May. Bank debits went down materially. Building, on the basis of contract awards, rlrnnnnH pnnsiriprnhl v from .Tune's

' , aaa , dipd:high levels but was much above;that doing you will be enRuben C. Stout, age 83, died; s mtlert tr thP reward offered for

. ... . i nnrma mr .iiiiv. . , -

Monday night at UKianoma vuy. - He was a former resident of. the' Department store sales were , . i seasonally the best so far this

rarmersDurg commumiy. .:i su.. .... I Click wrote

j c .

the one that murdered Bilhe

Haaga, Anna Kuzeff and Phyllis Conine. ' "This I know is a terrible confession and I want you to hand this confession to Chief of Police Lester Eisenhut. I understand

information leading to the arrest and conviction of the murderer,"

Wfai H. Fry Dies Al Paxlon William H. Fry, age 78, died at his home in Paxton at 10 o'clock this morning after an illness of

a month. He was a retired coal

miner and a member of the Dugger Church of Christ: He is survived by the widow, Eliza; two daughters, Mrs. Paul Ashcraft and Mrs. Mary Black, both of Michigan; two sons, Leroy Fry of Michigan, and William Fry of Anderson; a brother, Noland Fry of Jasonville; two sisters, Mrs. Stella Cazzell of

Ougger, and Mrs. Eetty Ringo of

Newark, ind., and ten grandchildren. The body was taken to the Newkirk Funeral Home at Pleasantville. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.

OAnrcftlyear.

SW t Oklahoma Plitv- six dau-I lower tnan in anV other 1949

-hr. m-c vrmttiP Eviptan'. ' month, but above all postwar

tri d.,io c u,. mqm ta' Julys but 1948. Farm income de

rv,,m Mrc pqi .Tnnp nil iH ded slightly, with higher

Oklahoma City; Mrs. H. C. Arnold Prices bein2 offset h? smTlller

of Hnnks -Texas, and Mrs. A. K. , reVelI-,u

McCarthy of Cyjfil; Oklahoma ;;V sister, Mrs. Claude " Thomas .rC Terre Haute; a brother, George L. Stout of Terre Haute, and seven grandchildren. v ' The body was returned to Farmersburg where services will be held at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon at the Fidler Funeral Home. Burial will be in the Hull Cemetery. . . ". .-

Soviels Hold U. S. Hostages NEW YORK, Aug. 25 (UP) Russian authorities in the fviet zone of Germany are holding two Amerkan college boys as hostages for the return of three Russian army deserters who fled to the American zone, the family of one of the boys disclosed today. . i Edward Oelsner, 35 year old president of the U. S. Navigation Co., said the State Department notified him yesterday that his brother, Warre, age 20, and Peter H. Sellers, age 18, of Philadelphia, were being detained by the Soviets. '

Sfeel Truss - -Crushes Foreman EVANSVILLE, Ind., Aug. 25 (UP) Russell Scott, age 59, foreman for the Hoffman Construction -Co., was crushed .to death today, by a .two-ton steel truss which fell at the National Furniture Co. plant here. H. A. Wallage 48, Fairfield,, Ill. suffered 'leg and shoulder injuries when he was hit by the falling truss.. '

The furniture plant was closed for the day after the accident.

Officials said three" women faint

ed from excitement and other women employes were too upset

to work.

The construction company is

building a lumber storage shed for the furniture company.

BOY INJURED BY TRACTOR

Dean Ross, age 14, of near

Oaktown,, is in serious condition

at the Mary Sherman Hospital as a result of an accident with a tractor. The extent of' the injuries and the nature of the

accident could not be learned.

Atlantic Pact Becomes Reality.

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The confession was witnessed

in Allen County jail Sunday and was witnessed by Attorney Robert Buhler, Click's defense attorney. Buhler also witnessed Mrs. piick's reward demand which she gave to police with the confession. -t - -- - . . TheTliirl Man, Buhler also is attorney" for Ralph W. Lobaugh, Kokomo factory worker, who confessed, denied and pleaded guilty to two of the murders Click now says he committed. Lobaugh repudiated his guilty plea and has received seven stays of execution. He is slated to die Nov. 26.

By Warren Duffee United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aug. 25. (UP) Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan informed the State Department shortly after V-E day that President Truman was "personally interested' in a trip of Vaughan's friend, John Maragon, into restricted areas in Italy, Senate investigators were told today. The State Department classified Maragon as a person whose "travel is authorized by the President. Maragon was. seeking a passport to Italy to negotiate for perfume oils in behalf of the Albert Verley o., Chicago perfume firm. David A. Bennett the man who sent seven deep freezers to Vaughan and friends is president of the Verley Co. Vaughan's move to help Maragon get a passport wa3 disclosed in a letter made public by the Senate investigating committee inquiring into the activities of Maragon and other alleged Washington 'influence salesmen." Maragon's perfume oil buying

trip was made aboard Army Air Transport Command planes at a time when thousands of war weary U. S. soldiers were vainly sacking transportation home

in the summer of 1945. Earlier evidence brougTaout that Bennett himself had made a previous trip with the help of a White House letter from the

President's military aide and had brought back S53.405 worth of perfume oil aboard an Arm plane.

James McCarter

(ills Self In

arlisle Home

Bennett, who later sent de?p freezers to Vaughan and a selected list of the aides White Houre circle friends, got his letters from Vaughan seven days befora victory in Europe. ,

Other Evidence In quick breaking developments the committee also received official evidence that: 1. Maragon triad to bring in two tins of valuable orange oil, disguised as champagne for the White House. Customs inspectors .-aught him. The oil was sdZ&a, but released on payment .of a $1500 fine by Maragon. 2. Customs Agent J. W."J.oberts in New York reporTeil Maragon had written on'T'pieca. of White House stationery the name of George Drescher, form--er head of the White House s-

j cret service detail, as aauressee

rr-!or the "champagne."

amesi, 3. Vaughan in his letter for lisle rural route, died at 6 a.m. ,mi tn hr,m

Gilmores Celebrate Silver Wedding Mr. and Mrs. Harry C. Gilmore were honored last night on their 25th wedding anniversary with a dinner at the Davis Hotel and a party at their home at 30 West Street. The dinner at the Davis Hotel began at 6:30 p. m. "with the tables beautifully decorated with flowers. The guests ate by candlelight. After the dinner a short program was given by Mrs. Earl Cummings and Bob Rose. After dinner the party went to, the Gilmore home where they ilayed bridge with H. W. Branstetter winning high for men and VIrs. C. E. Fisher winning high for women. K. W. Dix won high for bingo. For late refreshments a beautifully decorated two-tiered white cake, topped with a miniature bride and groom and surrounded by flowers and candelabra, and punch was served. Mr. Gilmore, who is principal of Sullivan High School, and Mrs. ' Gilmore received many lovely gifts in silver marking the silver anniversary from the guests. They also received many cards from friends. Those attending the dinner were Mr. and Mrs. Leo Pellum, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Springer, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Campbell, Mr. and Mrs. Claude Powell, Mr. and Mrs. John H. Oldham, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Branstetter,, Mr. and Mrs. Harry C. Lowry, Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Tennis, Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Snyder, Mrs.

this morning from a

shotgun wound. Coroner Stanley

Jewell pronounced the death

suicide. r The coroner said that McCarter, who has been employed at the

Enco Coal Mine "No. 5 at Bruce-

ville, arose early this morning

planning to go to Indianapolis. He G A chadwick, Washing

went into the living room and t att.ornev and former ofr;c-

shot himself with a 16-gauge ial of g gurplus -property comshotgun. The body was discovered for which the Greek.Amby his mother, with whom he .an worked ln a futile at made his home. No reason was , . . . TiT-ira

it may concern .identified, Bennett as "a prominent business man of, Chicago (who) is entitled to the courtesies of American officials abroad." . . Attacks Attorney ' "

4. Maragon once attacked

gon said showed he was entitled

to an $8,000 fee. 5. Maragon was paid $5ul0.15 in expenses and 'compensation by Trans-America Traders, Inc. (Ha had denied under oath at early secret hearings that he received

given for the act. He was born in Sullivan County on August 15, 1904, the son of the late James McCarter and Mrs. Sally Hackett McCarter. He is survived by the mother; a son, Leon McCarter of the U. S.

ghters, Miss Lois McCarter and any compensation from the cornMiss Norma McCarter, both of . Panv-' Terre Haute, and Miss Linda Lou I 6- Vaughan also wrote an ArMcCarter of Sullivan; four bro-' my commander m Europe to help thers, Chris McCarter of Bruce- m 6ood frlend John Maragn ville, Gilbert McCarter of Car-on a tri abroad to get "lu3 lisle, Alvin . McCarter of Vin- war materials for Trans-Amer-cennes, and Charles McCarter of ica- ; , Paxton; and four sisters, Mrs. I More Sued Celesta Rosebolt of Sullivan., Mrs. 1 Maragon. serious faced and Mildred Link of Anderson, Mrs. more subdued than usual, aoRobert Purcell of Ottawa, 111., and veared in the jampa'jked little Mrs. Willard Johnson of Gary. ( hearing room, after more than an The body was taken to the nour at the testimony. His atSchulze Funeral Home in Car-jtorney, Myron C. Enrlich. arlisle. Funeral arrangements have ' comDanied him. He was forced not been completed. i to stand near the door because

there wsre no seats. .

JVIARRIA1GE LICENSES

The county clerk has

marriage licenses to the follow

ing persons: Nellie Faye Foutz of Sullivan, R. 2, and Lowell Raines Badger of Sullivan, R. 4. Stella Mae Foutz of Sullivan, R. 2, and Carl Eugene Gilbreath of Sullivan, R. 2.

Potv Jewell Montgomery Carlisle, and Eugene Volk New Lebanon.

Maragon was rnt on this : first trip by Eennett. Vaughan sought

issued I Mason's clearance, according

to the testimony lor a se-jona later trio. The Vaughan latter in Maragon's behalf was Baled Aug. 3, 1945. find was pdlressd to Mr,1?.

Ruth Shipley, chief of the State

Deoartment passport bureau. It said Maraeon was arrangin a

of visit to Eurone. inludinu Norof t thern Italy, to negotiate for essential oils for the Yerley Co.

Congressmen, Smiling Through

Tears. Approve Economy Plan

pnrt Mrs C F. FisVipr

Bob Rose, and the honored guests, Mr. and Mrs. Gilmore.

WASHINGTON. Aug 25 (U.R Economy-minded Congressmen, smiling through their tears,

Earl Cummins, Mrs. Leota Shade, 'today generally endorsed De-

fense Secretary Louis Johnson's cutback in Armed Services personnel even if it did hurt them in their home districts. Some members, of course, complained bitterly that their districts had to take more than a fair share. But most felt like

Elks Senate Republican Leader Ken-

26th netb, S. Wherry of Nebraska,

GOLF QUALIFICATION BEGINS FRIDAY Qualifications for f the Elks

championship of Sullivan Coun-

at the August

SURROUNDED BY A DISTINGUISHED diploma'ic gathering at the White House, President Tru

man, with receipt of the "final instrument of ratification from France, signs a proclamation which

formally put the North Atlantic Pact into force. Arrayed behind Mr. Truman are (1. to r.) F. R. tv will be held Hoyer Millar, United Kingdom; Henrik De Kauffmann, Ambassador of Denmark: W. D. Matthews Country Club

of Canada; Defense Secretary Louis Johnson: Wilielm Munthe!de Moreensierne. Norwegian ATn-'throu81i August 28th. All Elk Wherry told newsmen he was

bassador; Ambassador Henri Bonnet of France; Ba-on Silvercruys, Ambassador of Belgium; Senhor me,mbers f Sullivan County are .naturally unhappy about the Pedro T. Pereira, Ambassador of Portugal; Secretary of state Dean Acheson; Jonkheer A. Reuchlin, SSS tSSSW" Minister of Netherlands, and Signor Mario LuciolU, .Counsellor of Italy. I house before playing. Pairings Congress can't blame the De- .-' (International Soundphoto.) will be made Monday. ' fense Department "for doing what

"we've been asking them to do." "They won't get a squawk out of me," he said. Johnson told the lawmakers about his cutback yesterday. At a Pentagon meeting, he revealed that he had ordered ' the discharge of some 135,000 civilian employes at shipyards, Air Bases and Army Posts throughout the nation. Most leaders of the economy bloc promptly hailed Johnson's decision. Chairman CJarence Cannon. D.. Mo., of the Hou$s

Appropriations committee said it

was "very welcome news." Sen. Harry. F. Byrd, D. Va., called it

"the first honest-to-goodness ef

fort to cut the government pay roll that he had seen in years.